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Friday, May 19, 2017

Checking the favourite reservoirs

       Leeshaw, plenty juv Starlings waiting to be fed
         Lapwings constantly fighting off the gulls
              Several BHGs back on site



                          Fly Flatts Oystercatcher
            Still at least 1 Wheatear present, Fly Flatts



1330 hrs and with Terns and waders still the target birds along with newly added Common Scoters ,which are just starting to move, it was a check of my local reservoirs in the hopes of something turning up.
Starting at Leeshaw with a greeting of black clouds and rain which soon dried up but leaving grey skies overhead. Black Headed gulls had increased in the area with several in the fields and on the banking along with Herring gulls. Wader wise it was just the usual Oyks, Redshanks etc whilst the Cuckoos seemed to have moved through apart from 1 calling high up on the moor in one of a number of solitary trees. Several Lapwing chicks are growing well now and looking a little less vulnerable though the adult birds spend all their time in the air warning off Corvids and Gulls.
                                                              A quick check on Lower Laithe which is actually 1 mile to the north out of my catchment area but worth a look at as I was so near and it can be a good water for Scoters but not today with very little present.
                                                                   Over the tops to Fly Flatts  with just the usual geese on the water but surprising still to find 1 Wheatear present along the top road.
                                                                 2 Golden Plover in the Nolstar field and getting a little late in the season now for any more Dotterel.
                                                          1pr Tufted and the usual geese on Cold Edge Dams whilst once again Mixenden reservoir had a lot of disturbance but several Swifts and House Martins were skimming the water.  No time left to do Ogden but I have a few dog walkers that will inform me if they see anything unusual on the water.
BS