Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Mill Bank & Withins Clough

Saturday evening Male Mandarin seen just below the bridge at Mill Bank, second sighting, it was also present on the previous Thursday evening.

Sunday at Withins Clough - Sanderling present on far shore line.
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4 comments:

Nick Carter said...

Thanks Howard and welcome to the blog. If you want to join the grapevine let me know, the Sanderling sighting would have interested many people I think

2:04 pm
steve_e said...

Sometimes a female mandarin in Sowerby Bridge Basin

7:13 pm
David Sutcliffe said...

Sanderling is a very good record Howard - I assume you had some mud edge up there? I don't think you will have any now after all this rain! We had some mud at Fly Flats for 1 week but think we will be back to overflow. This is the first time we have had any mud at Fly Flats for c3 years, then it's gone. We have had some poor years for waders up there.

8:20 am
Howard said...

I think the Sanderling had taken refuge as it was blowing a hooley - it was stood at the waters edge showing litle sign of movement. It was a lucky spot as I was just scanning for anything - 1 Canada goose was the only other evidence of life! Plenty of activity in the plantation though.

There is a little mud around with the reservoir level having dropped quite a bit over the recent dry months

8:32 am

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