Washburn Valley - female Blackcap, Spotted Fly, Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, Sand Martins
Storiths - Green Woodpecker, 3 Spotted Fly, Curlew with young, Hobby, 3 Red Kite, Kestrel, Mistle Thrush, 12 Oystercatchers
Ilkley Moor- Stonechat family, 9 Siskin, Grasshopper Warbler reeling (map ref SE105468)
Richard Lobley & Chuck Bulter
Juvenile Curlews in Upper Wharfedale
Storiths - Green Woodpecker, 3 Spotted Fly, Curlew with young, Hobby, 3 Red Kite, Kestrel, Mistle Thrush, 12 Oystercatchers
Ilkley Moor- Stonechat family, 9 Siskin, Grasshopper Warbler reeling (map ref SE105468)
Richard Lobley & Chuck Bulter
Juvenile Curlews in Upper Wharfedale
Juvenile Curlews in Upper Wharfedale photos: Roger Nelson
Fly Flatts (Warley Moor Rservoir)
11am - A female Common Scoter was present.
Brian Sumner
A Green Woodpecker, first seen yesterday, has been feeding near Brackenhall Farm.
Paul King
Garden Observations - Low Utley
In my Low Utley garden today I had goldfinch, greenfinch, siskin, redpoll, bullfinch and chaffinch!! (The first time I've ever had greenfinch in my garden in the year I've lived here!)
Add to that: house sparrows feeding their second brood of the year in my neighbours attic, a juv Robin, a family of dunnock; coal, great, blue and Long-tailed tits, wren, a four bird oystercatcher fly-over, and the sounds of nuthatch, treecreeper and song thrush in the trees just outside my garden, and it's not been too shabby of a garden watch day!
A completely meaningless observation: the mail house sparrow always leaves the fecal sacks he removes from nest in a neat row along the trellis, making it easy just to jet off with the hose, the female, on the other hand, drops them willy nilly from perching on the bird feeder and makes the floor a complete mess!
Josh Selfe
