Yeadon Airport on horizon above the chimney.
You can just see the plane tail fins when you
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Due to revised corona virus emergency laws yesterday stating that the form of exercise must be from your home making driving to a location for exercise or pleasure illegal ,my visits and reports for Fly Flatts reservoir will have to be laid to rest for the foreseeable future and birding will be confined in with local dog walking. The bad news is the blog will still continue the same so you,ll still have to read in but maybe with a bit more drabble than usual.
Another bright and clear day but with a cold NE>4 after a night of early clearing fog up here in the gods.
My walking today took in Foxhill, Old Guy Road, Roper Lane and Harper Lane all within a couple of miles from home with farm fields, hedges, small woodland, a cricket pitch and distant views to the east, south and west.
As expected, no great number of birds but 3 surprises with Greenfinch, Skylark and Curlew all found down Old Guy Road.
The cricket pitch down Old Guy used to be a hot spot years ago for early Skylark with double figure counts but only a pair of Pied Wagtails on there today which was disappointing until I found 4 in a field a little lower down along with a single Curlew in a distant field nearby, another bird that used to breed in the area. In my younger days I could open the house door and hear singing Skylarks and calling Curlews but those days have gone.
At the junction of Old Guy Road and Roper Lane I heard a familiar buzzy call and looked up to find 3 Greenfinch in a nearby tree, a rare bird for me over the last couple of years although to be fair I spend most of my time on the uplands.
Roper Lane had singing Chaffinch and a few of the expected species whilst Harp Lane had 2 Kestrels up together getting moved on by Crows. A small group of Stock Doves were in the field along with 8 Magpies. Harp Lane is a good spot for Visible Migration in the autumn with views to the north as far as Ingleborough and east beyond Yeadon airport to Otley Chevin. This watch point has been used by both myself and HC.
Keep Safe. BS
Old Guy Road
3 Greenfinch
1 Curlew
1pr Pied Wagtail
4 Skylark
18 House Sparrow
sev Meadow Pipits
Roper Lane
2 Chaffinch
sev corvids
Harp Lane
2 Kestrel
5 Stock Doves
7 LBB gull...............>E
+ usual sp.
BS