WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING: Looking back this year at better times.

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

Friday, October 25, 2024

Looking back this year at better times.

The day the lights went out. Dense fog all day so a day of dog grooming and no birding.

Just to remind me that birds did exist locally this year here are a few of the specials.

Caspian gull Fly Flatts

Great Black Backed gull, Leeshaw

Yellow Legged Herring gull, Ogden Adult

Yellow Legged Herring gull, Ogden 2cy

1cy Mediterranean gull. Thornton

Adult Med gull, Thornton

Common Sandpiper, Fly Flatts

Ad Ringed Plover, Fly Flatts

Dunlin, Fly Flatts

Mega !! Bird of the year, Wood Sandpiper, Fly Flatts

Sanderling, Fly Flats

Wheatear, Fly Flatts

Greenland Wheatear, Fly Flatts

Gadwall, Leeshaw

Pintail, Redcar Tarn and Fly Flatts

Shoveler Wibsey Park

Common Scoter, Fly Flatts

Long Eared Owl

Great White Egret, Leeshaw

Little Egret , Leeshaw

Arctic Tern, Leeshaw

Common Tern, Leeshaw

Arctic Tern, Leeshaw

Spotted Flycatcher, Ogden

Black Redstart, Fly Flatts

Juv Ringed Plover, Fly Flatts, The only wader this autumn !

Black Redstart, Fly Flatts

Whinchat, Fly Flatts.

Hopefully a better morning tomorrow with a light SW and some sunshine but this fog will take some shifting overnight if there's only a light wind.

BS