2 Skylark dust bathing
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
Blackstone Edge
2 Common Sandpiper. Also 2 at Lighthazzles and 2 at Whiteholme.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Saturday, April 06, 2024
Friday, April 05, 2024
Thursday, April 04, 2024
Ogden area.
We headed up from Syke Lane near Ogden Water, towards the wind farm and the edge of Thornton Moor this afternoon. It was quite hard work with very few birds about despite the favourable conditions - no rain !!
Managed a few Meadow Pipits, 4 Curlew, 1 Lapwing, 2 Red Grouse and not a lot else. Enjoyed the walk all the same. Returning to Syke Lane it all a happened within a few minutes. An Osprey came over from ESE Bradshaw direction at 16:00. Quite high but unmistakable. Staying at the same height it continued NW over Back Lane plantation and disappeared towards Thornton Moor. Then we located a distant Barn Owl and a Little Owl in a tree. 2 hours and not much then what a last few minutes before we got back to the car.....
Travelling gull
On 16 December 2023, in Shibden Park, I read the number of a white ring on the leg of a Black-headed Gull, and sent it to the BTO. The BTO told me it is a ring from Norway, and gave me an email address to write to.
I have had a reply from Morten Halberg of Birdlife Norway. He told me that the bird was ringed as an adult on 21 April 2021 in Stavangar on the southwest coast of Norway.
Morten also gave me a list of all the other dates and places this ring has been read. These show that the bird flew east, and then that it has been 'commuting' between Norway and the UK. The dates and places are:-
April and June 2022: Oslo, Norway - 190 miles east of Stavangar
December 2022: Shibden Park, UK
April and May 2023: Oslo
November + December 2023 and January (4th) 2024: Shibden Park
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Whiteholme
Greylag pair - just arrived
