We enjoyed a walk along the river at Ilkley today.
A good few hail showers were keeping the birds at bay.
With the dodgy weather we went downstream to Ilkley cemetery across the bridge and back up t'other side.
We had a very pleasant chat with Debra and Chris from Bradshaw, who we met in the church café and bumped into again along the river.
Birds:-
2 Grey Wagtail,1 Pied Wagtail.
Drake Goosander with a B.I.G. fish.
(possibly a Rainbow Trout)
The Goosander looked like it had bitten off more that in could chew!
2 Nuthatch, 2 Dipper, Song Thrush and a few other sp.
A chunky looking F. Chaffinch that is confusing me.
The bird may have some disease of the leg?
I am trying to turn it into something else but failing!
Ogden to Bradshaw
16:00 -17:45
The weather improved late afternoon so I had a look at Ogden Water and walked home via Percy Road & Taylor Lane.
Just 1 Black Headed Gull and 1 Common Gull on the water when I arrived!
4 Larger Gull did arrive later.
Pr. Goosander still here.
3 Treecreeper, Coal Tit, Goldcrest and a few other sp.
8 Stock Dove were in the Percy Road fields.
A largish flock of small birds landed here as well, c30 Meadow Pipit or Skylark - probably a mixture of both?
The Taylor Lane Little Owl took some finding - it was on the deck for a change - not used to seeing in on the deck.
A pr. Meadow Pipit were seen from our kitchen window.
(Raggalds Flood held 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull).
Ilkley:-
For computer programmers out there.
A Nuthatch de-bugging a tree.
Ah! there's the bug.
Cobol was my thing yonks ago.
c++ was beyond my old brain,
when it arrived on the scene.
Chunky F. Chaffinch.
One leg looks 'diseased'
Ogden - Bradshaw:
Ilkley Video of fishing Goosander:-
Nice one John. A big fish for a Goosander but I guess it got it down in the end ?. A Cormorant would have had a tussle with that one but once there it ends up going down.
ReplyDeleteBetter fried with a few chips !!
Nearly forgot - you like your Treecreepers.
ReplyDeleteIt was still tussling with the fish when we left!
ReplyDeleteLots of Treecreeper at Ogden I guess - still great to see them though.
Ta for the comment.
John