Dowley Gap area
Wintering Chiffchaff singing next to aquaduct, 83 Pied wag counted, plus about 20 more, too mobile to count, 5 Grey wag, 3 G.S.W.peckers drumming in wood.
Oxenhope Between 12.10pm and 12.35pm,
circa 2500 Pink-footed Geese passed WNW, in 16 skeins,
largest being circa 400 birds
2 skeins Pink-footed Geese flew N/W over West Bowling total 350+
Yeadon Tarn
82 Pink-footed Geese flew over from east to north-west
3 Pochard
Leeshaw Res -
150 BH gulls, common gull, cormorant, 27 lapwing, 24 greylag,
36 Canada geese, c.70 fieldfare overhead NW.
Oxenhope Moor (edge of area) -
c 300 Pink-footed geese moving NW
Stockbridge - 33 species this morning including -
3 Redpoll, GSW, 2 Oystercatchers mating, a few Siskin,
Kestrel (male) and Sparrowhawk.
At about 13.45 a skein of geese passed over Fewston Res. Birds totalled
about 100 and formation as Pinkfoot going west
4 siskins, 2 redpolls in garden Nr March Cote Farm Cottingley
Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits am 24 species including:-
dipper(pair), oystercatcher (pair) goosander (pair)
7 goldeneye , 40 + curlew
A Tremethick, H Creber, MVPriestley, P Kng, A Greenwood,
S Radcliffe, S Varrie, S Parkes
