Foxhill held 38 Common gulls and 9 Black Headed, the Commons usually building up to around 70+ over winter.
Back at home and keeping myself busy catching up to jobs I got a call from NK informing me that a skein of Pinkies were heading my way so a quick grab of the camera and out into the garden just in time to see them to the north of me heading >W. The skein held 92 geese fairly low but disappearing into some low cloud as they headed over Soil Hill.
Mid afternoon and a one hour session of sky watching from the top of the Dailie fields looking east over the Aire valley. I was hoping for more Pink Footed geese or Whoopers but this did,nt materialize .
A few Herring and LBB gulls passed through whilst a Kestrel, Sparrowhawk and 3 Buzzard were in the air looking over Baildon and Shipley Glen. A group of 19 Chaffinch flew overhead but these were probably local birds.
The Black Headed gull with the green leg ring I photographed at Redcar Tarn yesterday was ringed, as an adult, in Oslo, Norway, in May 2016 and first turned up at Redcar Tarn in Feb 2017. This 6 year old male spends its winters at Redcar Tarn then returns to Oslo to breed clocking up over 10,000 miles up to press. Many thanks to DP for this info.
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