Sunday morning rounds

                        Curlews back at most sites now

             Little Owl back at Leeshaw after a winter absent

            Good passage of Herring gulls >W

                                       Male Goosander over Leeshaw

                                    Several Oystercatchers around

            Both Barnacles still at Cold Edge Dams

A dark and drizzly morning as I headed out on a reservoir check but birdable though not a photographic morning with very poor light.
Leeshaw sounded like spring with Lapwings displaying in every field and the calls of Curlews and Oystercatchers.  The same birds were back at Fly Flatts but lower numbers and moving around, not yet established.

Lower Laithe
3 Oystercatchers
9 Canadas
7 Greylag
Small gulls

Leeshaw
5 Oystercatchers
11 Curlew
Little Owl
c200 Starling
38 Fieldfare
2 Cormorant
Heron
1m Goosander.......................>E
19 Herring gull....................>W
sev Lapwings holding territory

Fly Flatts
1m Stonechat
4 Curlew
1 Oystercatcher

Cold Edge Dams
2 Barnacle Geese
110 Canadas
4 Greylag
2 Oystercatchers
3 Curlew
Dams not checked

Mixenden
1pr Goosander
3f Goldeneye
usual gulls

Raggalds Flood
3 Mallard
c30 Redwing
2 Lapwing
BS