Monday, 29 August 2022

Leeming Reservoir

We enjoyed a non-birding walk from Oxenhope to Haworth and back this morning.

Near Old Oxenhope Farm (I think it's called) there was lots of muck being spread about.

Hereabouts were 2 Kestrel, 2 Buzzard, c120 Starling, c50 Meadow Pipit and c10 Pied Wagtail.

This afternoon I took the short drive over to Leeming to check out the reservoir.

Chilly and dull here this aft.

Birds:-

c10 Tufted Duck.

2 Cormorant.

Common Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail.

Red Legged Partridge , Green Woodpecker and Great Spotted Woodpecker all heard.

Bullfinch, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Coal Tit.

Herring Gull, Black Headed Gull.

A long scan for the Redshank paid dividends as it appeared at the north end just as I was leaving - it disappeared very soon though.

I did not get a photo of it in flight, which was a pity.

One bird on my earlier  blog , in flight , was definitely a Redshank with the white in the wing obvious (and not the hoped for Spotted version). 

The Redshank photos are rubbish in the distant gloom - more my fault than the weather's!



The old Raleigh Rust Master.












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