Mackerel sky over Foxhill
Grounded today with the car in doc for its annual makeover and now Im told it won,t be ready until tomorrow tea time, you can,t get mechanics like they used to be in my day! If they had spent less time sending me videos of their progress and got on with the job it would have been done.
That now means another day missed at Fly Flatts and worst still, no shopping trip for Lynda, that is serious.
On the plus side, the weather today was rubbish for reservoir watching with blue skies and sunshine although tomorrow is forecast to be wet and windy which will be a bad day to miss.
A local walk about morning and late afternoon to check the Pit Lane gulls,
Harp Lane and Blind Lane for migrants and the Dailie fields for migrants in the Hawthorns plus some sky watching over the Aire Valley. Unfortunately there were cows, a calf and the biggest meanest looking bull you,ve ever seen at the the top of the Dailies so , having the dogs with me, I just stood at the top snicket watching over the Aire Valley which gave a good show of distant Buzzard over Shipley Glen and Thornton whilst big gulls were constantly heading >NW from over Bradford city centre, possible heading for TMR.
Some of the best gull watching can be achieved on certain flat buildings around the Bradford city area which attract hundreds of big gulls. KM picked up a Glaucous gull on one of the buildings a year or so back with a cracking photograph of the bird .
Pit Lane
23 Common Gull
38 BH gull
5 Linnet
2 juv Pied Wagtail
Blind Lane
2 Buzzard over Clayton
12 Goldfinch
8 Linnet
Harp Lane
1 Willow Warbler
1 Whitethroat
2 Wrens
Dailie Fields
4 Buzzard
1 Sparrowhawk
2 Kestrel
33 Herring gull
41 LBB gull
sev Swallows.
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