No birding today with an ongoing project at the daughters so, as we are all looking forward to February, I,ve put some of the more outstanding birds that have turned up during February in previous years :-
Twitching a Snow Bunting on Ringby Top. 2017
Kittiwake, Shibden Park 2014
Soil Hill Snow Buntings
Northowram Tree Sparrows 2015
Invasion of Goldeneye, Mixenden
Cormorants trout fishing, Leeshaw.
Pink Footed Goose, Leeshaw
Good month for Pinkies heading home.
Pinkie
Whoopers, Cold Edge Dams
Barn Owl, Fly Flatts
Siskin, Ogden
Iceland gull Redcar Tarn
Same Iceland
Caspian Gull, Redcar Tarn
Iceland reappeared Redcar Tarn
Whoopers, Mixenden
Stonechat numbers growing, Fly Flatts.
Early breeding Raven
Short Eared Owl, Fly Flatts.
Kingfisher, Ogden
Usually a good month for Siskin, Ogden
Something we don,t want, Fly Flatts snow and frozen water.
Thornton, 1st winter Med gull
Thornton 1st winter Iceland gull
Oystercatchers arriving back at Leeshaw
Fieldfare in fields, Fly Flatts
Another February, another Caspian gull, Redcar Tarn
and another Iceland gull
Curlews returning to Leeshaw.
Whoopers, Fly Flatts
Shelduck, Fly Flatts.
Waxwings Brighouse
Great Black Backed gull, Mixenden
Ringby Top Snow Bunting
1st Ringed plovers back at Fly Flatts.
Kittiwake, Shibden Park 2014
Soil Hill Snow Buntings
Northowram Tree Sparrows 2015
Invasion of Goldeneye, Mixenden
Cormorants trout fishing, Leeshaw.
Pink Footed Goose, Leeshaw
Good month for Pinkies heading home.
Pinkie
Whoopers, Cold Edge Dams
Barn Owl, Fly Flatts
Siskin, Ogden
Iceland gull Redcar Tarn
Same Iceland
Caspian Gull, Redcar Tarn
Iceland reappeared Redcar Tarn
Whoopers, Mixenden
Stonechat numbers growing, Fly Flatts.
Early breeding Raven
Short Eared Owl, Fly Flatts.
Kingfisher, Ogden
Usually a good month for Siskin, Ogden
Something we don,t want, Fly Flatts snow and frozen water.
Thornton, 1st winter Med gull
Thornton 1st winter Iceland gull
Oystercatchers arriving back at Leeshaw
Fieldfare in fields, Fly Flatts
Another February, another Caspian gull, Redcar Tarn
and another Iceland gull
Curlews returning to Leeshaw.
Whoopers, Fly Flatts
Shelduck, Fly Flatts.
Waxwings Brighouse
Great Black Backed gull, Mixenden
Ringby Top Snow Bunting
1st Ringed plovers back at Fly Flatts.
So plenty to look forward to during the month of February.
BS