Green Withens, Rishworth Moor and Blackstone Edge

On a scorching day on the moors I saw: plenty of meadow pipits, a few skylarks, a couple of common sandpipers in the vicinity of Green Withens Res', a wheatear on the little building by Sam Hill, two curlews around Rishworth Moor and best of all a grasshopper warbler reeling and showing well by the drain just south of Dog Hill.
It was pretty good for insects too, with my first common hawker of the year and a broad-bodied chaser (not a species I usually associate with acid upland water bodies) by the aforementioned drain. A red admiral crossed the moor near Dog Hill and there were hundreds of small heaths about.

Chris