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
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