Government Guidelines - stay local and use open spaces near to your home, it is not within the guidelines to go birding by car no matter how local.
Many of Bradford Council's Car Parks are now closed. They are:
Cow and Calf, Whetstone Gate, Ilkley Lido, Riverside Gardens, Darwin Gardens
Haworth – Bronte Village Car and Coach park, Weavers Hill
Haworth Bronte Parsonage Museum car park
St Ives Low Park, Golf Club & Coppice Pond and Play Area car parks
Lister Park car park, Cliffe Castle car parks, Baildon Moor carpark
Penistone Hill Dimple Lane Quarry and Moorside Lane
Marley Playing Fields 0700-0800am
5 Chiffchaff singing, three in close proximity not social distancing at all. 4 Cormorant overhead. Herring Gulls over Marley sewage works, Pair Grey Wagtail on R.Aire. 4 Redwing with Song Thrushes and Blackbirds feeding on field edges.
M Doveston
Bingley Bog North - Little Egret & 2 Chiff-Chaff this afternoon.
Shaun Radcliffe
Glovershaw
4 Golden Plover, 50 Fieldfare, a Snipe and three Curlews amongst many Lapwings.
Steve Meredith
Bingley - Lady Lane & Walsh Lane
A Common Buzzard, up to five Lapwing, a pair of Pied Wagtails, about six Curlew and a Lesser Black-backed Gull. The rookery has just two nests this year. A Chiffchaff was singing and a Raven was seen on both Walsh Lane and Lady Lane. Other birds included Herring Gull, Meadow Pipit and Oystercatcher.
Phil Matthews
