A quick dash to the top of the Dailie fields this lunchtime for a bit of sky watching as I knew I would,nt get chance to do an Ogden check this evening.
A much more birder friendly weather day with 100% cloud cover remaining dry until 2000hrs when light drizzle crept in with the sky almost dark by 2030 hrs.
Not much moving down the Aire Valley but enough to keep me interested the 15 minutes I was there.
Common gulls are building in numbers in Foxhill Park early mornings now and good numbers of gulls are going over >E each evening on their way to the Eccup reservoir roost which must be building up nicely now.
All our local gulls, including Ogden congregate late evening at Oxenhope reservoir before moving off last light to roost at Eccup,then by October gulls will begin to roost at Oxenhope,( BOG members only) birders that is, not gulls, building up to around 8000 gulls, an awesome sight over the winter months.
Midday Vis Mig
9 Swallows........................>S
5 Meadow Pipit................>SW
1 Skylark..........................>S
2 Cormorant....................>W very distant over Otley.
17 Linnet.........................blogging
5 LBB gull.......................>NW
2 Common gull...............>NW
21 BH gull.......................>SW
Good to know raptors have started to move with a Marsh Harrier through Fly Flatts today, see Calderbirds.
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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.(2025).