Just a check on Mixenden Reservoir this p.m. with a cold NE>5 and some heavy snow showers at 0 degrees.
Around 150 small gulls on the water but difficult to go through due to the high waves in the strong wind. Three big gulls were present with one of each, Great Black Backed, Lesser Black Backed and Herring, all adults. The GBB did the usual and left before I,d got within half a mile of it.
Otherwise nothing else and nothing blog-able so, to follow up from last nights gull gallery, tonight its the turn of the raptors with all the following images taken at Fly Flatts.
Red Kite heading for Cold Edge Dams
Merlin by the boat yard
Buzzard surrounded by Golden Plover
Merlin fly past
Star prize, Osprey
Always Kestrels present
as well as Buzzard
Kes Red Kite over Tattie Pie Hill The one non Fly Flatts member, Ogden Sparrowhawk. Fly Flatts Peregrine. juv
Red Kite over the water Sparrowhawk mobbed with crows A fast moving Merlin Peregrine in the SW corner Good size comparison, Sparrowhawk to Crow. Going in feet first. These Merlins keep turning up Peregrine. Kestrel on the lookout Another star prize, Cream Crown Marsh Harrier Over the NW corner Yet another Red Kite Same Marsh Harrier Peregrine Marsh H again Another year, another Osprey over the turbines Sparrowhawk on Robin Rock 2 Peregrines together Peres are a real nuisance during wader season.
Buzzard in moult And another Osprey. Usually 1 sighting a year but dipped in 2020
Pale phase Buzzard
