Thick fog didn't look all that good through Wainstalls and Cold Edge for a trip to Fly Flatts this morning but it was a surprise to have a clear view of the reservoir as I arrived and the rain stopped, leaving reasonably good clear conditions for VisMig from the north end. Cold feet in wellingtons was the only drawback after 2 hrs standing about !! but I did enjoy it.
Full details on Trektellen.
Birds moving >SW - 363 Meadow Pipits, 4 Rooks, 4 Swallow and a 'tit' species was probably a Coal Tit. Others moving >NE - 1 Snipe, 4 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
Also around the north end - 4 Mallard on the res'r, 4 Stonechat with a Wren in attendance, 4 Wheatear, 1 Reed Bunting, 2 Kestrel and a Reed Bunting etc.
More Stonechats later for BS - see West Yorkshire Birding - link on this page.
Ogden - Carr's Beck at bottom of the golf course this afternoon - a Green Woodpecker was alarming and we saw a Sparrowhawk after it. Thankfully the 'woody' escaped at the last 'ditch' and the hawk headed off in another direction. Quite a few Jays about and Mistle Thrushes too.
Other news - the Black Redstart is still at the site at the top of Taylor Lane,
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Nice up there when its above the fog but it usually creeps up later as it lifts out of the valleys.
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