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Friday 8 May 2020

Friday 8th May 2020

Otley Wetland Nature Reserve
Goldeneye (1 male), Water Rail (heard only), Common Tern (pair), Little Owl (1), Common Swift (fair nrs), Sand Martins, Dipper (1, river), 
Grasshopper Warbler (pair in rough grass beyond cattle grid, towards sailing club), Reed Warbler (good nr), Sedge Warbler (1), Garden Warbler (2-3), Bullfinches, Reed Buntings
John Armstrong

Nab Water Lane, Oxenhope
Five Wheatears (four females and a male) and a Grey Wagtail.
Leeshaw Reservoir
Three Dunlin, a Curlew and a Common Sandpiper.




Three of the waders at Leeshaw: A Common Sandpiper, a Curlew and a Dunlin - Brian Vickers
Glovershaw
Two Wheatears in Golcar Fields, two Swallows at the farm, three Jays relocating and two singing Common Whitethroats which have now established breeding sites.
Paul King

Beckfoot Lane, Bingley
A Wood Warbler and a pair of Goldcrest.
River walk, Bingley
Green Woodpecker, Chiffchaff and Grey Wagtail seen during walk.
Steve Meredith

Fly Flatts (Warley Moor Reservoir)
Four Dunlin, a Ringed Plover seven Common Sandpiper, three Redshank, three Stonechat, two Reed Bunting, a Common Buzzard and two Oystercatchers.  A Barnacle Goose was sitting on a nest and a Cuckoo could be heard over towards Ogden.
Brian Sumner                     more on Brian's Blog.

Dowley Gap to Hirst Wood (6pm to 7pm)
Three Pied Wagtail, a pair of breeding Grey Wagtail, and an Oystercatcher.
Steve Meredith
A Wheatear at Whetstone            photo: Keith Allen
Breeding birds in Manningham Park
…Before they become snacks to some predator or other – today there were:
Four Canada goslings; two greylag goslings; four mallard ducklings and four moorhen chicks on Manningham Park Lake.  I’d not noticed the moorhen nesting underneath a patch of nettles on one of the islands -but then they aren’t quite as public as the coots with their mounds of sticks & plastic detritus.
Joy Leach

Eldwick Reservoir
13 Swallows, six Willow Warbler, two Oystercatcher, a Common Sandpiper, a Grey Wagtail, a Blackcap, three Song Thrush, a Jay, a Long-tailed Tit, two Chiffchaff, two Mistle Thrush plus a nest with two eggs.  Also present were Moorhen, Tufted Duck (female), Pied Wagtail and a Jackdaw nest on a chimney on Otley Road.
Phil Matthews