2nd January 2009

Leeshaw reservoir , 3.30-4.30
2 cormorant, 100 greylag, 3 canada geese, 2 female goosander,
70+ fieldfare,1 kestrel hunting,1 female stonechat

Judy Woods, Wyke
1 Woodcock, 2 Nuthatch and a single GSWdpecker

Royds Hall Dam, Low Moor - 2 Goosander

Harold Park Lake Low Moor
1 GC Grebe + 3 Tufted Duck

St.Ives
Several Jay, Nuthatches, Tit flocks, 3 GSWdpkrs

Heaton Woods -
2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers displaying and drumming
Nuthatch and Treecreeper in mixed flock and Grey Wagtail

1st year Whooper swan on Swinsty Reservoir this afternoon. Also, 24 Teal (on the in flow into Swinsty from Fewston Reservoir) and apx. 1,000 Black-headed and 700 Common gulls in the roost.

female Goldeneye on Fewston Reservoir

2 Nuthatch near Dob Park Bridge

2 Goosander on Lindley Wood Reservoir

2 Long-eared Owl roosting - Aire Valley

T Anderton, MVPriestley, M&H Doveston, C Pottle, J Poland, G Holmes