WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING: Odds and Sods from the past.

WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING

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.

BS

Sunday, October 23, 2022

Odds and Sods from the past.

Another full day of dense fog and heavy rain up here on the tops so just a few pics to browse through to pass a bit of time on.

Leeshaw Cuckoo

Ogden Firecrest

Bradshaw Ring Necked Parakeet

Shelf Moor Snipe, this site now being excavated

Last light Woodcock, Soil Hill

Leeshaw Yellow Legged Herring gull

Leeshaw, displaying Dipper

Ogden Mandarin

Ogden female Pintail

Ogden male Pintail

Fly Flatts Knot

Fly Flatts Spotted Redshank

The 2 together

Doe Park Osprey

Fly Flatts Pintail

Thornton ad Mediterranean gull

Redcar Tarn Caspian

Fly Flatts Cuckoo

Thornton ad Med gull

Shelf Moor Greenland Wheatear

Leeshaw Whinchat with young

Fly Flatts Twite

Withins Black Redstart

Fly Flatts Caspian Gull, this bird a first for Calderdale

Fly Flatts Great White Egret another first for Calderdale

Fly Flatts cream crown Marsh Harrier juv

Thornton 1st winter Med gull

Redcar Tarn Shoveler

Fly Flatts Sandwich Tern

Fly Flatts Turnstone

Fly Flatts Ring Ouzel

Fly Flatts Hobby

Redcar Tarn Iceland gull

Fly Flatts Sanderling

Soil Hill at its best

Soil Hill watch point towards Mixenden res

A montage of Ogden Yellow Browed Warbler and Firecrest

Northowram Tree Sparrow 1 of 11

Fly Flatts Common Tern

Mixenden Whooper Swan 244.

Shelf Moor Snipe.

Snow Bunting loved the stony surface on Soil Hill as well

as Lapland Bunting and Shore Lark

3 Shorelark present Nov 2003.

Ogden Yellow Browed Warbler

Ogden Crossbill male

Shibden Park Kittiwake

Soil Hill Twite

Soil Hill Sedge Warbler

Leeshaw Barnacle geese with single Pink Footed

Mixenden Iceland gull

Remember these, Waxwing.

A twitch on at Mixenden

This is what they,re after, Avocet.

Mixenden, long staying Great Northern Diver.

Fly Flatts Black Tailed Godwit.

Soil Hill Grasshopper Warbler

Soil Hill Whitethroat

Soil Hill Grasshopper Warbler

Mixenden Gadwall

Elland Gravel Pits Little Egret.

Redcar Tarn 1st winter Med Gull.

Elland Gravel Pits in its hey day

Spotted Sandpiper present here May 1990

Dotterel Soil Hill April 2008. Only had a pocket camera when

I came across this.

HC and mi,sen taking a break from Vis Mig

TMR many moons ago.

All photos BS.