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Monday 14 September 2020

Monday 14th September 2020

Fly Flatts (Warley Moor Reservoir)
Highlights included: Three Wheatears (Greenland type), six Northern Wheatears, a Merlin, a Peregrine and a couple of Common Buzzards.

Report and images of Greenland Wheatears (leucorhoa) from Brian Sumner                 

Glovershaw
9.30am - Three Wheatears on the 11th fairway.  A flock of up to 20 Meadow Pipits and six Skylarks feeding on the 7th fairway.
Paul King
later: A Little Owl, adult and juvenile Barn Owl and a Wheatear.
There were four other Wheatears, a Stonechat, a Mistle Thrush and six Meadow Pipits on the golf course.



Report and images from Steve Meredith

Oxenhope watchpoint
Highlights this morning included a fly-through Wryneck (east to west) and a fly-through Little Egret (south east to north-west).
Report: Dave Barker and Howard Creber

Migration watch at Low Moor by Martyn Priestley

Redcar Tarn - Franklin's Gull very briefly this morning only
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