29th April 2008

Two Goosander [drakes] over Silsden at 08-00.

Bolton Abbey Two Dippers [a pair]

Strid Wood
Three pairs of Pied Flycatchers,all visiting nest boxes
Male Redstart singing at the Aquaduct. Wood Warbler

Barden Bridge to Howgill
3 male mandarin (another 2 males at Appletreewick and Water’s Laithe), 2 female goosanders, 3 common sandpipers (including pair), 2 medium-sized colonies each of 60 sand martins, 17 (singing) wrens, 2 (singing) willow warblers, 1 (singing) blackcap (at Howgill), 3 nuthatches.

Bingley Moor -
one or two Golden Plovers, more Greylag Geese! A male Wheatear

Common Buzzard over Cottingley 12.30

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Wheatear - 6, Whinchat - 1, Linnet - 2 north, Swallow - 18
Swift - 3 high to north
, Pied Wagtail - 7, Willow Warbler - 4
Meadow Pipit - 15, Common Sandpiper - 1, Redshank - 3
Curlew - 6,

Raven - Oxenhope Moor

Peregrine - high over Shipley


Trough Lane
Wheatear - 8, Stonechat - single male
Red Grouse - 1, Curlew - 2

cuckoo heard on the edge of Ilkley Moor

Glovershaw Area
Four Wheatears on the walls at Birch Close Lane,
male Stonechat by the 12th tee/gallops and
a Cuckoo over Sconce direction.


J Flood, D Odell, JLTopham, M Taunton,
H Creber, D Kidman, P King