With all this talk of Yellow Wagtails in the Calderdale area I thought I,d better get up on Ringby Top, despite the heat, and check it out.
The habitat up there now is less than perfect with the ploughed field holding just Corvids and a single Skylark, the Wagtail field is well overgrown and the Snow Bunt field is pretty much non descript at the moment with all the pools dried up. No Wagtails of any description up there and unlikely to get any unless the ploughed field attracts them after a rainfall.
On the plus side I got my first Whitethroat of the year with 2 pairs and young skulking in the undergrowth along with several Dunnock and young and a Wren all in the same bushes.
Gulls were disappointing with just a few LBBs flying round as well as Black Headed. If they don,t get the tractors working up there we,ll end up with another Soil Hill
BS