Oats Royd

                          Jay hiding in the branches

                                         

                               Pick n Mix Geese

  Flowering Currant doing well

                 Old Packhorse bridge

             Looking back down the steep climb

                                        The Gulf

                         Bottom of the Gulf and memorial stone

                   Another hill to climb

   Looking over Holmefield down the Calder Valley

Back to the weekend with a dull drizzly evening and it was off down Oats Royd with a very low expectancy to see if JLs sighting of a first for Queensbury Mandarin duck had returned but as expected, nothing.
Plenty disturbance by the ponds with dog walkers and rowdy kids so it was a quick scout around and back to base.
The area produced the usual common woodland stuff along with a couple of Willow Warblers and a calling Chiffchaff although it was 1930 hrs so most birds had gone down.
A Jay showed briefly before heading for the Gulf .
A lovely area but far too much disturbance to hold anything for long.
Anybody on for a local Swift this weekend ?
BS