WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING: Fly Flatts, a.m. (permit only)

WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING. BRIAN SUMNER. I am based at Queensbury and bird a patch within a 10 mile range of home incorporating 16 stretches of water, several plantations, a belt of woodland, stretches of river and canal and good areas of moorland. I specialize in upland birds, reservoir and sky watching. My local patch is Fly Flatts reservoir. Any reports can be sent by text or call to 07771 705024 or see profile for e mail address. All images on this blog are copyright.(2024).

WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING

BRIAN SUMNER.

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No sightings of Roe Deer, Fox, Hare or Badger will be mentioned on this blog throughout the year and links will be removed from other blogs giving the whereabouts of these mammals due to the rising influx of poaching, long dogging and lamping by sick individuals.

Saturday, May 14, 2022

Fly Flatts, a.m. (permit only)

Still plenty Dunlin present

Single Wheatear

1 of 4 Redshank

Short Eared Owl over the moor

female Ringed Plover

Little Owl in Bradshaw.

SEO mobbed with Lapwings

3 m 1 f Tufted new in.

SEO and Lapwings

A bright morning at Fly Flatts with broken cloud and sunshine at 8 degrees on a light W>3.

A good start to the morning with a Little Owl on a telegraph pole as I drove through Bradshaw. On arrival at Fly Flatts a Short Eared Owl was heading out over the moor getting heavily mobbed by Lapwings and Curlew.

Wader wise was just the usual Dunlin, Common Sand, Oystercatcher and Redshank whilst 19 LBB gulls headed over >SW. New wildfowl on the water was 3m and 1 f Tufted duck which are a rare visitor for this site.

I got a report this morning from a local Wainstalls birder of a Cuckoo down Slaughter Gap.