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Sunday, April 5, 2020

Queensbury walk about and Dailie fields.

                      Male Pied Wagtail on ' oss muck'
                                     Female Pied Wagtail.


                                      Several nesting Lapwings
             Getting down to the nitty gritty now. Robin
                                            Collared Doves paired up

           Distant Wheatear, Raggalds Flood.


                                   Buzzard, now a common sight.



The threatened heatwave never happened in Queensbury with a mix of sunshine and cloud on a SW>3 turning SE>4 then S>3 keeping the temperature low but pleasant for walking.
                                                 A walk taking in the full length of Old Guy Road, Roper Lane and Raggalds Flood and well as Pit Lane, Low Lane and of course the Dailie Fields.
                                                First part of the walk was pretty non exciting with the usual Mipits, Skylarks, Linnets etc whilst the Raggalds Flood failed to produce the Redshanks but held a single Wheatear and the usual pair of Pied Wagtails.
                                              Pit Lane, Low Lane had very much the same as the first section with Pied Wagtails, Linnets, Skylarks Collared Doves, Stock doves etc which was more or less duplicated down the Dailies. After a check around I sat half way up the fields sky watching which picked up my first Swallow as I was watching a Kestrel which was suddenly mobbed by a single Swallow.
                                                 Further watching found another 3 Swallow in the far distance over Shipley Glen caravan park then another 2 slightly nearer but mega high, all heading >N up the air valley.
          If the water holds out we should be due a visit from Ringed and Little Ringed Plover at the Raggalds Flood any time now, usually about the 14th April.

Raggalds Flood
1 Wheatear

Dailie Fields
6 Swallow ........>N up the Aire Valley
6 Goldfinch
3 Linnet
3 LBB gull...........>SW
+ usual sp.
Keep safe, BS