Whiteholme

Great Crested Grebe. My first here. (Because of the rain, I had only my 30x pocket Lumix with me).

I now have a Local Patch life list of 117. But mine is not a typical patch: it is a Split Patch comprising Whiteholme + Shibden Valley (north of A58, east of Easting 10). Ticks from both these sites go onto a single life list. 

If I: (1) lived by the coast,

(2) had an inland patch with both an expanse of water and surrounding vegetation and fields - like Ringstone Edge, or (3) was able to be in a patch soon after dawn to catch flyovers, I could see at a single site a reasonable number of species of the main families that occur locally.  

But since none of these applies to me, the only way I can build a lengthy local patch list (as opposed to a Calderdale list) is by lumping two very different habitats together as a single split patch.