Shipley/Baildon
Pink-feet flock heard at 6.00am
110 Pink-footed Geese heading west at 12.13pm
13 Cormorants west over Silsden Reservoir
Bolton Bridge to Addingham
130 calling Pink-footed Geese west over Farfeld Hall
Three Little Grebes, 5[possibly 9] Goosander on the Wharfe
Dipper , 2 Jays
Addingham 60 Pink-feet west over the north of the village
six Pink-feet west over Bracken Ghyll Golf Course.
Dipper Marchup Beck
Lower Marchup Farm [Addingham to Silsden]
Ten more Pink-footed Geese southwest.
Silsden Reservoir 14 Pink-feet flew south-west
Shipley Glenn area
Two pairs of Nuthatch were disputing territory by the Old Glen House and there were two more males calling on thewestern side of the Glen. A pair of GSW were very active with the male drumming and a pair of MistleThrush were engaged in settling into the area. Moorhens had returned to the 'pond' in the Glen and 2 Little Grebe was a again present by the footbridge over the river at Hirstwood. Thirteen Grey Herons were at roost, five on the 'muck heap' and eight further along the beck at Milner fields. At 12.15pm a flock over about 100 Pink-footed Geese flew along the valley, from east to west
Two large skeins of Pinkfeet over Cottingley between 11.30 and 12. one about 150 and the second about 300 ..heading NW.
300+ Pink feet flew N/W over Caldene Fields at 11.00
60 PF Geese >W over Queensbury 1130hrs.
Denton Hall
Very large flock of lapwing in front of Hall: 400 visible on ground in near field but some in field beyond and could well have been >1000 from earlier sighting of flock in air.
Private Lake
5 female goldeneye; 1 green woodpecker in field beyond
Knotford Nook
3 great crested, 4 little grebe, 1 cormorant, 7 goldeneye
1 male pochard, 7 wigeon inc 4 males, 14 tufties, 133 coot
M Doveston, D Odell, P King, M Taunton, MVPriestley,
J Flood, B Sumner
