A great find for BS with a Black-tailed Godwit in the morning and staying for most of the day on the west bank even despite the water-sports activities. I missed the earlier text but managed to get up there mid morning. Thankfully it was still there though distant from the top road - a scope job ! The bird was just coming out of summer plumage still showing plenty of red on the neck and breast which made it slightly easier to pick out. Pictures on Bri's West Yorkshire Birding blog.
Also at Fly Flatts at the top end of the top road a pair of Stonechat still there having been showing most of the summer though I've not seen any juveniles there. It was sad to see a dead Brown Hare roadside casualty near Slade.
Another, male Stonechat was also at the top end of Skirden Clough - the valley that leads up from Ogden reservoir to the wind farm
A juvenile Wheatear was also down the track that leads from The Withens towards Cold Edge. Also 30+ Swallows, mostly juveniles, were heading >NW along the ridge and a single Curlew still about up there.
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