Leeshaw Reservoir

                    Kestrel getting mobbed with Hirundines

                   Large Lapwing flock

                                    Canadas heading high and >E

                                       Juv Curlew

A rainy, misty Leeshaw this morning with little excitement but enough to keep the interest going.
A single juv Curlew was still present and a juv GBB gull in a distant field with LBBs was unusual.
NP/ DPs Whinchat was still around with 3 Wheatear but well out of camera range in the conditions.
The whole area was alive with Swallows and House Martins.

Vis Mig
4 Snipe.......................>E
19 Canadas...............>E
12 Mipits...................>W

Present
1juv GBB Gull
1 juv Curlew
c200 Lapwing
2 Teal
1 Whinchat
3 Wheatear
1 Kestrel
Sev House Martins and Swallows
+ usual sp
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Soil Hill, p.m.

                                Ingleborough

                     Late Swifts moving through

                Cormorants high and distant >NE

                                  Female Pied Wagtail

Soil Hill summit watch point 1500-1600hrs

A quick check on the Redstart bush first produced nothing so up to the top of the hill for some serious sky watching which produced well.
Swifts were moving >S through the Causeway Foot Col along with plenty Swallows whilst 4 Kestrels hunted in the area.
7 Cormorant were picked up in the distance over the wind turbines going >NE, these were possibly some of the Ogden birds.
LBB gulls headed for Oxenhope along with BHGs .
Several Meadow Pipits and Skylarks were on the hill along with 4 Linnets and 5 Pied Wagtails.
Good to bump into Bradshaw John by the Ned Hill track.

18 Swifts.................>S
32 Swallows...........>S
7 Cormorants.........>NE
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Fly Flatts

                                      Juv Wheatear

             Alive with Wheatear, at least 31 counted

                                    Plenty shoreline SE corner

    Vis miggers nightmare, bright blue skies.

                                         More Wheatear

    Dog fight over the Nab, 3 Kestrel and 2 Raven
                     Other corvids joined in

                           Back to the Wheatears

Fly Flatts early a.m. Cold NW>4 with clear blue skies and sunshine, yuk !

A good start on the way there with a Swift over Mixenden res but otherwise movement was limited with just Swallows heading >W and a few Mipits.
The reservoir area was overrun with Wheatear mainly in the SE corner but some up on the north shore counting at least 31 including several juvs.
A battle was taking place over the Nab with 2 noisy Raven, 3 Kestrel and a few other corvids joining in.
Otherwise all was quiet with the north of the reservoir deserted probably due to yesterdays undesirables blasting.
Only 2 BH gulls on the water and and no sign of Canadas or Mallard. A few lucky Grouse could be heard over the moor and several Meadow Pipits were along the shoreline.
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A new visitor to Queensbury, a.m. and Ogden p.m.

  Barny , probably the Fly Flatts Barnacle goose, paid a
visit to Queensbury this morning in fields below
Roper Lane with 38 Canadas.

               Ogden Common gull getting winter
                  streaked head.

         Lesser Black Backed showing off the bright
             red gonnis.

                    Female Tufted

           Record count of 11 Cormorant, mainly juvs

                                             Well moulting Common gull

                                   Formation flying

                                       and swimming.

                       Handsome LBB

                                     6 fighting for the perch

A pre work visit to Roper Lane watch point this a.m. found very little moving with just a few Swallow >SW but interesting to see what was probably the Fly Flatts Barnacle goose in with 38 Canadas in fields below Roper Lane, a first for Queensbury.
Ogden late afternoon was alive with Cormorants , mainly juvs, with a count of 11. Plenty gulls were around the shoreline whilst 1 juv and 1 adult Gt Crested Grebe were on the water. A diving duck looked interesting at the opposite side of the water but by the time I,d scurried round there it was in the middle so photos were well over digitalized but it turned out to be a female Tufted.
As I went back across the prom a Curlew kept letting out a whistle from somewhere along the NW shoreline but could,nt be seen.
Excellent conditions at Ogden at the moment , Prediction for Ogden,,,,, Little Egret in the NW corner area !!
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Roper Lane Watchpoint.

                                 From Roper Lane  WSW

                      From Roper Lane    SW

             From Roper Lane W over Ogden

A 15 minute pre work watch from Roper Lane this morning found it was the finches turn to move with a flock of 46 Linnet >WSW and around 50 Goldfinch blogging in the new plantation. Several Swallows headed >S whilst 4 Alba Wagtails went >W.
Gulls were moving >S with LBB and Common whilst 2 Herring gull flew westward.

Vis Mig
46 Linnet......................>WSW
29 Swallows................>S
4 Alba Wagtails...........>W
9 LBB gull..................>S
4 Common gull...........>S
2 Herring gull..............>W
c50 Goldfinch............Blogging

Been a hectic week for hospital visits with 3 days on the trot and poor Lyndas had cameras up her nose, pipes in her ears and a million other checks on her head, mouth and neck but at the end of it all we had a good clear result with the cancer ,and the partial deafness in due to radiation damage and only short term.
Next hurdle is cutting down the overnight feed with a view to the feeding pipe being removed in the future after an operation to insert her bottom teeth and lessen the size of her new tongue.
Hope you all have a good birdy Bank Holiday.
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