WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING

BRIAN SUMNER.
WELCOME TO ( WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING )
KEEPING BIRDING LOCAL.

BLOG UPDATED DAILY AROUND 2000 hrs.

FEEL FREE TO SEND ANY COMMENTS, QUERIES OR QUESTIONS DIRECT TO MY E.MAIL AT THE ADDRESS BELOW, OTHERWISE TEXT OR WHATSAPP. 07771 705024.


CLICK ON PHOTOS TO ENLARGE THEM.

ALL IMAGES ARE STRAIGHT FROM THE CAMERA WITH
NO PHOTOSHOP TUNING. TAKEN ON J PEG.

E MAIL ADDRESS :-
Briansumner51@hotmail.com

NOTE !!
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.
BS




Thursday, May 4, 2017

Fly Flatts , late p.m.

  Blue water below the Nab
             White horses across the water
 These 2 came past low and noisy but in the
    sun so no detail, Gary will know what they are.
 They asked for directions to North Korea so
 I told them to turn left at Cold Edge Dams.
           Still plenty Common Sandpipers around

1630 hrs and a late start visit to Fly Flatts to get some more seed down.  The blustery
NNE> 6 gusting 7 made it difficult standing on the west bank but it was well sheltered down by the feeding station where the male Whinchat made an all too quick appearance before it dropped down into the heather not to re appear even after 15 minutes wait.
Two Mipits and a Wheatear were on the seed but strangely no Skylark sighting at this location this year.
The fall of Wheatears have dispersed with only 5 showing and no sign of the Greenlands whilst several Common Sandpipers are still present despite the lack of shoreline.
                                                           No Terns through as yet but we need some nasty drizzly stuff to get those coming through low enough to see.
                                                                   A stop off at Nolstar on the way back produced nothing but Angela and Gary located the Goldie flock there earlier in the day. Well done to those two for giving it a go in blustery, cold conditions.
                                                A text from a reliable source this morning reported 2 Swifts over Ogden and the Mute Swans gone.
NK and myself have no records of Mute Swan ever being seen at this location and even checking back to the 1800s in records inc HSS nothing was found, unless you know different.
BS