WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING: Misty Leeshaw, Foggy Fly Flatts

WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING. BRIAN SUMNER. I am based at Queensbury and bird a patch within a 10 mile range of home incorporating 16 stretches of water, several plantations, a belt of woodland, stretches of river and canal and good areas of moorland. I specialize in upland birds, reservoir and sky watching. My local patch is Fly Flatts reservoir. Any reports can be sent by text or call to 07771 705024 or see profile for e mail address. All images on this blog are copyright.(2024).

WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING

BRIAN SUMNER.

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No sightings of Roe Deer, Fox, Hare or Badger will be mentioned on this blog throughout the year and links will be removed from other blogs giving the whereabouts of these mammals due to the rising influx of poaching, long dogging and lamping by sick individuals.

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Misty Leeshaw, Foggy Fly Flatts

Gulls , Lapwings, Oystercatchers

Canada numbers building

Oyks on the shoreline

and in the fields

Good numbers of Common gulls

Upper Marsh 0715 hrs
78 Lapwing
53 Fieldfare
100 + Starling
Still no Goldies

Leeshaw 0730 hrs
Misty then clearing but grey with slight snow showers
8 Oystercatchers
1 Curlew
76 Canadas
1 Cormorant
21 Lapwing
c50 Common Gulls
+ usual sp.
Nyger seed down for 1st time.

Fly Flatts 0900 hrs
An horrendous drive up to Fly Flatts from Oxenhope on a sheet ice and snow covered road only to find, yes you guessed it, Thick Fog on the tops.
A check around the fields lower down by Hunter Hill with just small gulls and corvids present.

0930 hrs Back home for a pot of hot coffee
BS