Sunday 24 August 2025

Leeshaw Reservoir - Red Kite, Buzzard, Cormorant, Grey Heron

Brian Vickers 

Thursday 21 August 2025

Whetstone Gate area - 2 Stonechat families, Willow Warbler, Reed Bunting

Stockbridge Reserve - 2 Kingfishers following each other to perches, 2 Common Buzzards circling high over the site, juv Reed Bunting.

Shaun Radcliffe 

Sunday 17 August 2025

Stockbridge Reserve - 2 Little Egrets on the islands, Blackcap calling. Feeder attracting Bullfinch, Goldfinch & Greenfinches.

Shaun Radcliffe 

Sunday 10 August 2025

Nab Water Lane, Oxenhope - 3 adult Stonechat plus 3 Juvs. 

Brian Vickers

Monday 11 August 2025

Leeshaw Reservoir - 3 Black T Godwits, Lapwing, House Martin, Swallow, LBB, Herring & Common Gulls,

Foto & sightings from Nigel Priestley

R Aire walk from Bingley to Hirst Wood - singing Chiffchaff & 2 calling Nuthatch in Myrtle Park. On 

the Wagon Lane stretch, Kingfisher, 2 Cormorant , Grey Heron & Little Egret seen.

Shaun Radcliffe 

Saturday 9 August 2025

R Aire, near Ravenroyd Farm, Bingley - 2 Little Egrets feeding on the river.

Shaun Radcliffe 

Thursday 31 July 2025

Leeshaw Res. - Y L Gull, Little owl, Cormorant

Brian Vickers

Cullingworth area - Wood Warbler, Green Woodpecker, Siskin, R L Partridge with chicks, Willow Warbler, Jay, Curlew & Oystercatcher

Wood Warbler foto & sightings from Nigel Priestley.
 

Wednesday 30 July 2025

Fringes of Baildon Moor - Stonechats, Little Owl, Barn Owl, Stock Dove, Skylark

Shaun Radcliffe

Monday 28 July 2025

R Aire near Bingley Rugby grounds - Common Sandpiper

Thomas Simcock 

Tuesday 22 July 2025

Bolton Bridge - Little Egret

Roger Nelson 

Friday 18 July 2025

Stockbridge Reserve - a ringing session produced 53 birds including Sedge, Reed & Garden Warbler. Three very young Reed Buntings indicate breeding here. A Little Egret called in.

Jon Middleton. 

Thursday 17 July 2025

Ireland Bridge, Bingley - young Mandarin Ducks, juv Green Woodpecker in nearby Myrtle Park

Baildon Moor - male Merlin

Matthew Rawnsley 

Monday 14 July 2025

R Aire walk from Bingley to Hirst Wood - Little Egret, 2 Mandarin Duck families, one with 4 young, the other with 3 young. 2 Kingfisher, 8 Goosander, a few Grey Wagtail & a single Grey Heron. Heard a Green Woodpecker near the woods.

Shaun Radcliffe 

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Leeshaw Reservoir - Ringed Plover, 2 Cormorants

Brian Vickers 

Friday 4 July 2025

Hewenden Reservoir - Little Egret, Buzzard, Oystercatchers, Grey heron, House Martins & Swifts 

Sightings & foto from Nigel Priestley

Leeshaw Reservoir - Little Egret, Y L Gull

Brian Vickers 

Sunday 29 June 2025

Stockbridge Reserve - Little Egret, Kingfisher, Sedge Warbler, Chiffchaff, Bullfinch, Goldfinch, Reed Bunting.

Jon Middleton & Shaun Radcliffe 

Monday 16 June 2025

R Aire Bingley to Hirst Wood walk - Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, Goosander on Myrtle Park stretch.

Kingfisher & Grey Wagtail on Wagon Lane stretch. River level extremely low.

Shaun Radcliffe 

Sunday 15 June 2025

Stockbridge Reserve - singing/calling birds - 3 Sedge Warblers, Blackcap, Chiffchaff.

At the feeders - Bullfinch, Reed Bunting plus many young birds of the tit family.

Shaun Radcliffe 

Saturday 14 June 2025

Oxenhope area - pairs of Dippers reported on Leeming Beck, Dunkirk Beck & a pir with a fledgling on Bridgehouse Beck ( see foto below)

Sightings & image from Mark Purvis
   

Friday 13 June 2025

Ilkley Moor - Curlew, Snipe, Golden Plover, Whitethroat,Red Grouse fledglings.

James Wright

Harden Moor - Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Sand Martin, Song Thrush, Skylark, Jay.

Sighting & foto from Nigel Priestley