Sunday, 1 August 2021

Whiteholme / Blackstone Reservoir / Local Evening Outing

 A run out to Whiteholme Reservoir this afternoon.

I find the walk to Whiteholme very enjoyable with some lovely moorland scenery and today there was loads of shoreline, a lot of it out of range of my bins,  and this is a right enigmatic sort of a place, some days are brill others don't thrill!

Today the only thrill was in the walk.

Just a Pied Wagtail along the shoreline and a calling Curlew, far off over the NE moors (not seen).

Three Crow types passed by, then two passed the other way and one was perched on a very distant rock, all  six failed the Raven test.

Blackstone Edge Reservoir.

There is stacks of shoreline here also and a quick scan from the roadside found a few more birds than Whiteholme.

1 Common Sandpiper.

2 Black Headed Gull.

3 Meadow Pipit.

5 Pied wagtail.

4 or so Canada Geese - distant.

Local Bradshaw Fields.

Quiet here as well.

3 Greenfinch, 2 Goldfinch.

1 Little Owl

Red Legged Partridge calling - not seen.

Meadow Pipit.

1 Mistle Thrush.

Woodpigeon and Jackdaw and not much else.

Bit late with my blog  tonight and I did see a Gull species over that I needs some more time to study. 

Blackstone Edge:



Whiteholme:




Local Fields:










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