With once again fog hanging along the western ridge and later creeping through the plantation and over the water at Ogden it just gave me time to view 4 Herring gulls. 1 LBB gull and around 300 small gulls plus a Green Woodpecker fly over before lights out.
Whilst I,ve a quiet night blog wise I,ll take this opportunity to leave you with a few highlights from the last 12 months of birding Fly Flatts to death.
Kittiwake juvenile
Flock of c 235 Golden Plover
Wheatear
Plenty Common Sandpipers and Reed Buntings
Cream Crown Marsh Harrier flew over Fly Flatts,
Nab Water Lane and Leeshaw then seen at Keighley Moor.
3 Dotterel, Nolstar.
Several Whinchat
Female Wigeon
Peregrine
Osprey fly over >SW
Masses of Pink Footed Geese
Female Common Scoter
Breeding success of Common Sandpiper
and Stonechat
Raven
more Peregrine
Raven
Caspian gull, a mega.
Great White Egret, another mega
Ring Ouzel
Dunlin
Fall of Fieldfare
Grounded Redwing
Stonechat.
There in bleak conditions
and good conditions.
Just a few of the major highlights of 2017 with several more commoner species found during the
75 visits I made to this location during the year taking my species list up to 115 over the years.
Many thanks to Yorkshire Water and Halifax Sailing Club for their support through 2017.
BS
