With fog over Fly Flatts this morning then near gale force winds and heavy horizontal rain this afternoon today was down to a few very wet dog walks and birding put on hold.
With the month end here and wader season as good as over I,ve put together a few specials I,ll be expecting, taken from the last 2 year Octobers. The only waders I,ve ever had at Fly Flatts during October is an odd Dunlin and Ringed Plover plus Jack Snipe so the main species I,ll be concentrating on is winter ducks, geese and swans between Fly Flatts, Mixenden, Ogden and Leeshaw, plus of course gulls around various local sites.
Mixenden Whooper Swan Mixenden Goldeneye Mixenden LBB gull, intermedius.
Mixenden Ring Necked Parakeets
Leeshaw Teal
Perseverance Road Black Redstart
Raggalds Flood, Wigeon Redcar Tarn, Shoveler Redcar Tarn, Caspian Gull Leeshaw, Teal Fly Flatts, distant Ring tail Hen Harrier
Fly Flatts, Whooper Swan
Thornton fields, ad Med gull
Thornton fields, 1st winter Med gull
adult
1st winter
Leeshaw Wigeon
Fly Flatts Black Redstart
Fly Flatts 2 f Pintail with Wigeon
Fly Flatts Wigeon
Fly Flatts Wigeon.
Fly Flatts, Stonechats over-winter at this site.
Fly Flatts, a different Black Redstart
Thornton fields, another 1st winter Med gull
LH bird
Oxenhope Pintail
Doe Park, Wigeon Fly Flatts, yet another Black Redstart , 3 together at one point.BS
