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




Thursday, July 16, 2026

The heat is on, Fly Flatts.

                                    1 Female Tufted with 4 ducklings
                                     


                                    Water getting shallow now
                                    Islands appearing
                                    2 of 4 juv Golden Plover.

                                    Very aggressive.












                                    2 Common Sandpiper


                                        4 Wheatear present

A misty start to the morning at Fly Flatts with visibility just across the water on a light SE>1 at 13 degrees. By 0900 hrs the sky was blue with sun and the dreaded heat getting up.
   Golden Plover were up to 4 juveniles on the shore being very aggressive towards each other whilst 2 Common Sandpipers were still keeping everything away from their well hidden chicks.
    Up to 4 Wheatear present and around 50 Goldfinch on the thistle tops. A single female Tufted duck was on the water with 4 small ducklings all constantly diving whilst several BH and LBB gulls were at the north end. Nothing skyward other than loads of Swallows and Swifts and a single Kestrel.
   A little cloudier tomorrow with cloudy sunshine on a light NE starting off at 12 degrees and getting to 21.
BS