A pair of Ring Ouzels
Elsewhere a Cuckoo at Lower Barden Reservoir and several Stonechats.
Keith Allen
Barden Bridge and Strid Woods
Two Redstarts, several Pied Flycatchers, three Spotted Flycatchers. three Garden Warbler two Dipper and a Cuckoo (heard).
Chris King
Fly Flatts (Warley Moor Reservoir)
10 Ringed Plover, nine Dunlin and seven Wheatear.
Brian Sumner more on Brian' Blog
Eldwick Reservoir
Breeding Blackbirds photos: Phil Matthews
Curlew at Eldwick Reservoir photo: Phil Matthews
Jackdaw sitting by its nest photo: Phil Matthews
Dipper at Myrtle Park, Bingley
The Dipper seen in Myrtle Park on 11th May had a ring that appeared to be black on white - A48. It was in fact, or at least at one time was, a lime green ring. The bird was ringed, as a nestling (sex unknown), along Harden Beck on 26th April 2018. The sighting was about 3 km from the ringing site grid reference. The metal ring, which cannot be read in the photo, is RZ25048. So, it appears this bird may be resident close to its birth spot.
Phil Matthews
Thornton Moor Reservoir
A Grasshopper Warbler calling, a pair of Ravens, pair of Stonechat, four Linnet, two Lapwing with chicks and six Willow Warblers. There was a Cuckoo calling, a pair of Oystercatcher, six Curlew and a flock of over 30 Starlings collecting food in the fields.
Stephen Parkes
Low Snowdon - 2 calling Cuckoos, pair of Stonechat, 2 singing Whitethroat, a singing Garden Warbler & Blackcap, 7 singing Willow Warblers, pair of Linnet plus Snipe heard in the undergrowth.
Shaun Radcliffe
River Aire from Keighley Golf Course to Silsden
Birds seen included Reed Bunting, Lesser Redpoll, Lapwing, Curlew, Garden Warbler, Blackcap, Willow Warbler, and Chiffchaff. There was also Swift, Swallows and House Martins and a female Goosander carrying seven young on her back. A Song Thrush chased a Jay and a single Grey Wagtail was carrying nesting material at the bridge and two others were seen on the Cobby.
The colony of about 20 Sand Martins is thriving and there are signs of that a second colony exists further along the river.
Spring Cragg Wood/Alder Carr Wood
A couple of noisy Jays
Low Wood
Two singing male Pied Flycatchers and female. Lots of Treecreepers, Blackcaps, Goldcrests and Siskin.
Josh Selfe
Sconce
A Cuckoo in the area
Thomas Simcock
Shipley Glen
A Green Woodpecker was on the edge of the wood, near Brackenhall.
Paul King
