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Sunday, November 23, 2014

Tour of the reservoirs and a bonus for Leeshaw

     Bonus morning, 9 Whooper Swans >E over Leeshaw
                  Nearly missed these as still part dark

                   Plenty Cormorants on the move

                      Skies full of Woodpigeons
                                    7 Cormorant on Leeshaw

                                           Juv Cormorant
                                  Fields full of pheasant.

At last a clear but damp morning very slow to come light.
Had to wait at Lower Laithe for some light to appear before I could check the water.
First light and very dull at Leeshaw when 9 Whoopers came over very high and direct West to East.
Several Cormorants were moving, some calling in at Leeshaw.
Leeming res was the only one with shoreline but nothing special there.

Lower Laithe  0730 hrs
18 Mallard
2 Cormorant
Sev small gulls
Fieldfares over into wood

Leeshaw  0745hrs
9 Whooper Swans..........................>E
7 Cormorant
9 Mallard
1 Heron
1 Little Owl calling
1 Kestrel
200+ Woodpigeons
9 Meadow Pipit
1 Wren
17 Lapwing
usual corvids and small gulls

Leeming
28 Mallard
1 Cormorant
1 Jay
sev small gulls
BS