Heather Park, St Ives - An evening watch for 75 minutes produced 16 sightings of Woodcock. There was one sighting of 3 birds roding together.
John Preshaw, Julia & Shaun Radcliffe
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Saturday, 22 June 2024
Friday 21 June 2024
Whetstone Gate area - 2 male Whinchat, one singing, Hobby hunting nearby.
Jon Budworth
Stainburn Plantation - Tree Pipit calling, Cuckoo heard. later during dusk, Woodcock & Nightjar recorded.
Bryce Henderson
Friday, 21 June 2024
Thursday 20 June 2024
Baildon Moor fringes - on a hot afternoon, plenty of Willow Warblers singing, Kestrel hunting. Only one Whitethroat heard near the drained reservoirs. Just a single butterfly seen in a two hour walk on a sunny day.
Shaun Radcliffe
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Sunday, 16 June 2024
Sunday 16 June 2024
High Royd Scrape & Dowley Gap Sewage Works - many Swifts, House Martins, Swallows & Sand Martins seen.
Bryce Henderson, Graham Wood
Bingley Moor - male Stonechat
Matthew Rawnsley
Stockbridge Reserve - pair of Little Grebe, Kingfisher, Kestrel, 2 Sedge Warblers calling, singing Chiffchaff & 2 Singing Blackcaps, nice male Reed Bunting to the feeder.
Shaun Radcliffe
Monday, 10 June 2024
Monday 10 June 2024
R Aire, Bingley - single female Goosander with a creche of 19 young birds. The cold wind had them huddled together.
R Aire, near Hirst Wood - Common Sandpiper.
No hirundines seen hawking on the river between Bingley & Hirst Wood except at Dowley Gap S W.
Shaun Radcliffe
Saturday, 8 June 2024
Friday, 7 June 2024
Thursday 6 June 2024
Heather Park, St Ives, Bingley - 8 sightings of Woodcock roding on a cold evening. Even the midges stayed indoors!!
Shaun Radcliffe
Sunday, 2 June 2024
Sunday 2 June 2024
Stockbridge Reserve - adult Chiffchaff with 2 fledglings, Reed Bunting singing & at feeder. Noticeable is the absence of Whitethroat with Sedge & Reed Warbler neither seen nor heard.
Friday, David Foster had a Little Egret here.
Shaun Radcliffe
Saturday, 1 June 2024
Saturday 1 June 2024
Scargill Res & Pasture to John O'Gaunt Res area - Singing Garden Warbler at car park, Skylark, Snipe, Stonechat & Meadow Pipit all recorded on pasture area. Oystercatchers on Scargill reservoir plus Reed Bunting calling & Linnet. Both Greylag & Canada Geese seen. Below reservoir, Redstart & Spotted Fly recorded with other common species. Cuckoo was heard along with singing Willow Warblers & Chiffchaff. Red Kite & Buzzard seen & a Kestrel. John O'Gaunt Reservoir had a few Tufted Duck & a pair of Little Grebe with 3 chicks. Nice to hear a few Chaffinch singing.
Total species recorded was 45 which was a good number in view of the cold wind endured. A total of 6 Redstart were heard with half of them observed. Each sighting showed the bird at the highest point of a tree.
BOG members walk.