Dumfries tagged Red Kite #5 - B Vickers


29th November 2007

pair of Tree sparrows at Eastfield lane , Burley

Timble
Mixed flock of Tits , including a Goldcrest.
Small flocks of Redpoll and Siskin. 30 Fieldfare,
Stonechat, G.S.Woodpecker

Wharfe Valley
Red Kite from Dumfries with two green wing tags

Stockbridge -
Water Rail heard, possibly 2 birds, 50 Siskin, 4 Bullfinch,
3 Common Gull, G S W, Sparrowhawk perched next to feeders,
Kestrel (in box), 2 Reed Bunting, winter thrushes


J Cope, S Lilley, S Radcliffe, B Vickers, M Taunton

26th November 2007

Leeshaw Res, 20 Greylag Geese, Kestrel.

Oxenhope Moor, 1 Peregrine.


B Vickers

24th November 2007

Ilkley Moor - track from Whetstone Gate
Snow Bunting overhead

Shibden Head
Redwing 20+, Jay 1, Green Woodpecker 1, Long-tailed Tit 7

Roper Lane, Queensbury: -
Bullfinch 1 male, Green Woodpecker 1,
Pink-foot Goose 160 heading SW to Halifax at 10.30am

Private Wetlands
24 Wigeon, 1 Teal, 18 Cormorant, 12 Goldeneye, 6 Siskin
20 Tufted Duck,

Knotford Nook
12 Wigeon, male Pochard, 6 Goldeneye, 12 Tufted Duck, Gadwall

Leathley - Red Kite, 200 Pink-footed Geese

Lindley Wood Reservoir
6 GCGrebe, 130 Mallard, Goldeneye, Goosander

East Riddlesden Hall
Kingfisher, 2 Bullfinch, 20 BHGull

Leeshaw Res,
Pair of Stonechats, Woodcock flew over the res, Kestrel,
Several Herrings gulls in the gull flock this morning


M&H Doveston, C King, A Jowett, B Vickers

21st November 2007

Fewston Res (midday): water level quite low
Teal 28 (15m, 13f), 1 f tufted ducks, 2 pairs goosander
1 redshank, 4/5 cormorants, ~300 lapwing, 4 goldcrests,
10 long-tailed tits


J Flood

Snow Bunting on Soil Hill by B.Sumner


18th November 2007

Soil Hill - 1 Snow Bunting
21 Golden Plover, Meadow Pipit

Members Only Res
23 Lapwing, 2 Goldeneye, Goosander

Long Causeway - 50+Lapwing

Trough Lane - Kestrel

Redcar Tarn -
10 Tufted Duck, Goosander, 200+Starling

East Riddlesden Hall
2 Kingfisher, 15+Long-tailed Tit, 20+Fieldfare, Jay

Stockbridge - only 23 species including;
Water Rail, Little Grebe (present for a week now),
Jay, Redpoll


B Sumner, M Doveston, S Radcliffe

17th November 2007

Members Only Res
Knot and Dunlin on small islands before leaving
Moving Birds:
Brambling 23+, Woodpigeon 126, Common Gull 21,
BH Gull 12, LBB Gull 1, Snow Bunting 1, No Starlings!
Others:
Stonechat 2, Rook 2, Carrion Crow 4, Lapwing 121
Goldeneye 5, Goosander 2, Mallard 35

Crossroads Garden -
Jack Snipe - stayed over an hour

Soil Hill - Snow Bunting

St.Ives
Redpoll, 10 Fieldfare, Jay, Nuthatch, Treecreeper
20+Goldcrests, 20+Long-tailed Tit

East Riddlesden Hall
2 Kingfishers flying round through gardens and trees
and were very vocal

Barden -
finch flock drinking at car park puddle including Redpoll

Bingley - Spa Lane - Grey Wagtail

Crossflatts bridge over the canal.
120 black-headed gulls on the water,
25 Canada geese and about 60 greylag type


DCBarker, Rita, M Doveston, M Taunton,
H Doveston, A Josephs

16th November 2007

Soil Hill - Snow Bunting

Skipton Sewage Works - permit required
Water Pipit, Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper

Members Only Res - Vis mig watch
Starling - 288, Brambling - 18, Greenfinch - 8, Goldfinch - 1
Reed Bunting - 1, Woodpigs - 220
Other non movers :-
Merlin - 1, Kestrel - 3, Goldeneye - male & two female on res
Lapwing - 55 on two islands far side of res, later 115 present
Redwing - 3 in wood

Lower Laithe Res, Goosander 2


H Creber, B Vickers, G Holmes

15th November 2007

Soil Hill - 15.30
male Snow Bunting appeared late in the day for 20 minutes
Snipe, 3 Stonechat, Pied Wagtail, GHeron, Fieldfare

Members Only Res - vis mig watch
Snow Bunting, Peregrine, Merlin, Stonechat, Kestrel

Hard Nese Clough near Oxenhope am
10+ bullfinch, wren, blue tit, great tit, sparrowhawk 2 reed bunting

Silsden Res, 12 Tufted Duck, 2 Pochard

Wharfe Valley
4 Red Kite, Buzzards, Kestrel,
and small flocks of goldfinch, siskin, & Redpoll.

Redcar Tarn, 2 Wigeon


A Tremethick, H Creber, S Parkes, B Vickers

14th November 2007

Dowley Gap & Hirst wood 15.00hrs
1 goldcrest, 2 mistle thrush, 3 jay, 4 meadow pipit, 1 reed bunting,
60 to 100 pied wag in flight when flushed off filter beds,
100 b.h. gull, 1 dipper on river

Soil Hill - 2 Snow Buntings 14.00


A Tremethick, B Vickers

13th November 2007

Redcar Tarn
100 Lapwing, 50 Common Gulls, 150Black-headed Gulls,
Lesser Black-backed Gull, 17 Tufted Ducks, Goosander.


P King

12th November 2007

Soil Hill - 4 Snow Buntings

Leeshaw Res - Water Pipit

Caldene Fields - vis mig watch
Goose Sp 50, Duck Sp 3, Mute Swan 2, Black-headed Gull 5
Wood Pigeon 1145, Pied Wagtail 2, Meadow Pipit 2
Starling 81, Carrion Crow 2, Chaffinch 3, Greenfinch 41
Goldfinch 9, Siskin 5



MVPriestley, B Sumner, B Vickers, R Proctor

11th November 2007 - Timble Ings





7 fieldfare, 4 crossbill 2 male 2 female
6 siskin, 6 goldcrests, redpoll, GSWdpkr
plus 3 pheasant, chaffinch, coal tit, blue tit and great tits.
F&S Ipson

11th November 2007



Soil Hill, Queensbury 7 Snow Buntings;3 male 4 female
Present until mid-morning but then were not seen again.
8 Grey Partridge, 4 Meadow Pipits, Herring Gull, 3 LBBgulls
2 Great Black-backed Gull
Images taken by B.Sumner

Barden Moor - Red Kite, Kestrel


Manywells Beck, Cullingworth - Dipper by D.Ogden

Canal Road, Bradford - 6 Lapwing
East Riddlesden Hall
Kingfisher, Tufted Duck, 60+Mallard, 7+Moorhen
Wharfe Valley
Redpoll, Siskin, Fieldare, Redwing, Kestrel
Members Only Reservoir - 7.30 to 8.30am
Goldeneye 5, Snipe, Kestrel, Cormorant
Black-headed Gull 3, Common Gull 2, LBbGull 2
Mistle Thrush 2, Rook
Caldene Fields - vis mig watch
Lapwing 108, Black-headed Gull 7, Common Gull 4, LBB Gull 11
Wood Pigeon 103, Pied Wagtail 2, Meadow Pipit 2, Blackbird
Starling 16, Carrion Crow 3, Chaffinch 12, Greenfinch 17
Goldfinch 2
Stockbridge
Male Teal, Little Grebe, G S W, Sparrowhawk carrying prey
River Aire at Buck Wood
Grey Heron, Kingfisher, Dipper 4, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk,
Kestrel, Great Spotted Woodpecker
Norr Hill, Wilsden
Moving Birds:
Common Gull 67, LBBGull 33, Redwing 115, Fieldfare 6,
Meadow Pipit 21, Chaffinch 4, Brambling 1+ heard ,
Lapwing 25, Woodpigeon 36, Carrion Crow 21,
Other: Skylark 5 in the roughs, Snipe 1 , Fieldfare 1

C King, B Sumner, M Doveston, D Ogden,
S&SGoodwin, JLTopham, H Doveston,
MVPriestley, S Radcliffe, C Pottle, DCBarker

10th November 2007

East Riddlesden Hall
4 Brambling, Kingfisher, Redwing, Siskin

Redcar Tarn
4 Goosander, 15 Tufted Ducks, 140 Lapwing, 100 Starling
Coots, Moorhen, BHGulls, Common Gulls.

Norr Hill, Wilsden
Starling 56 > NW, Fieldfare 6 > W,
Redwing heard, Chaffinch 2 > W


M&H Doveston, DCBarker

Reed Bunting in Riddlesden Garden - S.Lilley



Recent reports:

Skipton Sewage Works
Water Pipit, Green Sandpiper


Skipton Birder

9th November 2007

Yeadon Tarn - 29 Goosander, 1 GCGrebe

Knotford Nook -
1 Gadwall, 1 Pochard, 10 Wigeon, 6 Tufted, 1 GCGrebe

Otley Wetlands -
9 Whoopers Swan flew in. Still there at 13.00
3 Teal, 14 Goldeneye, 27 Tufted, 5 Little Grebe, 1 GCGrebe,
26 Cormorant, 2 Pochard, Jay, 44 Coot, 7 Moorhen

Wharfe Valley
Hen Harrier, Red Kite, Buzzards

S Radcliffe, J Flood, AGGough

8th November 2007

Low Moor Garden - male Blackcap

Stockbridge - Little Grebe, male Teal

Strid area - 39 Mandarin Ducks

Otley - Peregrine

MVPriestley, S Radcliffe, J Flood, M Braithewaite

6th November 2007

Wharfe Valley
upto 6+Red Kite, Peregrine
Hen Harrier


M Taunton, G Holmes

5th November 2007

Sun Lane N.R.
50 siskin & 30 goldfinch on alders,bullfinch,20 redwing,5 fieldfare


Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits/River Wharfe
2 cormorant, 16 fieldfare, 4 goldcrest
Field north of river - 30+ lapwing, 40+ curlew


J.Cope, S Parkes

images by S.Lilley




4th November 2007

St.Ives Estate - Siskins, Mute Swan

Caldene Fields - vis mig watch
Cormorant 1, Greylag Goose, Lapwing 3, Black Headed Gull 31
Common Gull 2, Sparrowhawk, Woodpigeon 5,076, Stockdove 2
Meadow Pipit 1, Pied Wagtail 8, Blackbird 2, Redwing 4
Fieldfare 72
, Starling 226, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow 6, Chaffinch 35
Greenfinch 37, Goldfinch 3, Siskin 2

East Bierley - vis mig watch
1400+Woodpigeons, 300+Golden Plover

goldcrest in Villa Road garden, Bingley

Members Only Res - vis mig watch
Goldfinch 2, Pied wagtail 4, Fieldfare 31, Lapwing 57, Woodpigeon 1672
Starling 731, Meadow Pipit 3, Redwing , Brambling 1+, Redpoll 2+
Chaffinch 7, Reed bunting 13, Cormorant 2, Bullfinch 2

Norr Hill, Wilsden- pm visit
Snipe 6, Woodcock 1, Skylark 3, Meadow Pipit 1, Blackbird

Fly Flatts Res - inc vis mig watch
6 Goldeneye, Stonechat, 8 Red Grouse, 626 Woodpigeons,
515 Starling, 48 Redwing, 8 Meadow Pipit

Lower Laithes Res - 8 Mallard

Leeshaw Res -
80 Greylag, 29 Canada geese, Sparrowhawk, 2 Mallard, Cormorant

Stockbridge - 32 species today including -
Kestrel, Water Rail, Siskin, Bullfinch, Redwing, G S W, 2 male Teal


M Doveston, D Parkin, MVPriestley, A Josephs,
DCBarker, H Creber, C King, A Greenwood,
S Radcliffe, B Sumner

3rd November 2007

Shibden Head in Queensbury
Redwing 70+ (Feeding parties in the valley), Fieldfare 8
Mistle Thrush, Starling 300+ (Heading North inc. 1 flock of 200)
Wood Pigeon 50+, Jackdaw 50+, Sparrowhawk 2
Jay, Nuthatch, Long Tailed Tits 40+, Green Woodpecker 1 (Female)
Bullfinch 2 (1M + 1F), Grey Wagtail, Common Gull 3

Soil Hill - 4 Linnet and 3 Carrion Crows

St.Ives Estate
Siskins, Redpolls, Mute Swan, Canada Geese,
Nuthatch, Jay, Long-tailed Tits 38+, GSWdpkr

Saltaire R Aire
2 and 5 goodanders, 8 herons nr boathouse, 1 bullfinch,
5 goldfinch, 3 nuthatch,

Hirst Wood Canal- 1 mandarin

Dowley gap - 9 pied wagtails

Caldene Fields vis mig watch
Back Headed Gull >16, Common Gull > 2, Wood Pigeon > 242
Pied Wagtail > 4, Blackbird > 1, Redwing 27, Fieldfare > 20
Starling > 401, Carrion Crow 6, Chaffinch 17, Greenfinch > 14
Goldfinch > 11

Members Only Res - vis mig watch
Curlew 2 >, Starling 550, Fieldfare 710, Redwing 22, Woodpigeon 2560
Greenfinch 12, Chaffinch 49, Reed bunting 5, Redpoll 23, Lapwing 110
Dunlin 1 , Whooper Swan 2 > SW, Blackbird 3, Snipe 2, Mipit 19
Pied wagtail 3, Snow Bunting 1+, Skylark 1, Kestrel 1,
Sparrowhawk 1 predating migrating Starlings

Wharfe Valley
2 Hen Harrier, 6+Red Kite, 5 Buzzard, 5 Kestrel
2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Raven

Barden Tower to Cavendish Pavillion 10:00 to 11:00
36 Mandarin Duck, 2 Goosander, 1 Grey Heron
Kestrel, Moorhen

Cavendish Pavillion to Round Hill 11:30 to 13:50
1 Goosander, 4 Buzzard, 2 Red Kite, 1 Kestrel
10 Redwing, 3 Partridge, 1 Pheasant, 6 Grouse
3 Fieldfare

Round Hill down to Ilkley 14:15 to 16:00
20 Red Grouse, 2 Meadow Pipit, 1 Kestrel
50+ Mallards flew over East to West
25 Lapwings in field close to Windsover Farm, 2 Dipper

Craggwood, Esholt sewage works and aire valley
2 jay, sparrowhawk, kestrel3, goldcrest, flocks of long tailed,
gt/bl/coal tits, 2 GSWpkr and Green Wdpkr, heard at least 2 nuthatch
chaffinch, siskin heard, 1 female goosander, black-headed gulls on pits.
plus usual woodland sp


C King, M Doveston, S Varrie, MVPriestley, DCBarker,
H Creber, AGGough, M Taunton, J Stallworthy, G Robin,

2nd November 2007

Private Wetlands
6 Meadow Pipit, 2 displaying Sparrowhawks,
Red-crested Pochard, 21 Tufted Duck, 8 Goldeneye,
2 Goosander, 4 Little Grebe, 1 Great Crested Grebe,
2 Teal, 25 Cormorant, 23 Greylag, 2 calling Little Owls.

Lindley Wood Res - 2 Teal

Swinsty Res - 4 Wigeon (1 adult male)

Wharfe Valley
3 Red Kite, 5 Buzzard, 2 Peregrine
Hen Harrier, 2 Raven

Members Only Res - vis mig watch
Mipits - 8, Fieldfare - 157, Redwings, Mistle Thrush 3, Pied wag 3
Starling - 187, Woodpigs - 63, Chaffinch - 18, Greenfinch - 31,
Goldfinch - 4, Bullfinch 1, Brambling 15, Redpoll 4, Reed Bunting 4
Skylark - 2, Stockdove - 2
Other : Raven - 2 over Sacrifice Stone

Timble Ings
Small flock Redpoll, GSW, 5 Reedbunting, 40 or so Fieldfare


S Radcliffe, AGGough, H Creber, S Lilley

1st November 2007

Members Only res - vis mig watch
Whooper Swan, Mipits - 2, Greenfinch - 2, Chaffinch - 2
Woodpigs - 41, Starlings - 94, Cormorant - 2

Strid Woods - Cavendish Pavilion
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker near Pavilion
Mandarins, Red Kite


H Creber, B Sumner, AGGough

31st October 2007

Wakefield Road, Bradford
200-300 Golden Plover

Saltaire - Dowley Gap
1 goosander , 4 jays, 1 GSWdpkr
15 pied wagtails - Dowley Gap


S Radcliffe, S Varrie