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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




Saturday, May 4, 2024

Fog. Back to Leeshaw.

 

                                    Nice to hear the call of the Curlew.

                                    Shore doing well

                                    1 of 4 Black Headed gulls

                                    9 Lesser Black Backed present


                                        Oyk bathing


                                    Goldfinch with Dandelion seeds.

                                    Dipper in the beck.

A pleasing morning weather-wise at Leeshaw reservoir with it just below the dense hill fog leaving full cloud and drizzle throughout at 5 degrees on a light WSW >3.
     Plenty activity to keep the interest going this morning though nothing new other than 2 Dunlin >W, fast and low over the far banking. They made 2 attempts at landing but only a very narrow strip of shore in that area so they continued on.
    Wader-wise, 4 Redshank, 6 Oystercatchers and 2 Common Sandpipers, plus the usual Curlews and Lapwings.
    The Pink Footed Goose was still in the large goose field along with the Greylags and Canadas whilst lower down the track, a single Dipper was in the beck.
     Quiet on the water with just Mallards, 2 Moorhen and 9 LBB gulls along with 4 Black Headed moving>NE. Very few small passerines with 7 Goldfinch, on dandelion seeds, 6 Meadow Pipits and plenty Starling but the Wheatears from my last visit seem to have gone straight through.
     A dry forecast for morning on a light WSW and visibility reading good, we shall see !
BS