BIRD SIGHTINGS

31st May 2005

St.Ives 2045-2230
at least 4 roding Woodcock

Undisclosed Site
2 Nightjar, Leo, Tree Pipit, Woodcock

Elland Gravel Pits
whitethroat, garden warbler and blackcap

Cold Edge Dams
stonechat, common sand

Swinsty Res
2 garden warbler, GSWP, cormorant, 2 GCG

Goit Stock
Cuckoo, Dipper, Grey Wagtail, Blackcap
Willow warbler, Nuthatch, Curlew, GSWdpkr

Catstone Moor, Cullingworth
1 pair Stonechat, Linnet, Lapwing, Curlew
130 LBBGulls in fields with 1 Herring Gull

Hewenden Res
1 pair GCGrebe with young, 2 Coot with nest

B Sumner, A Jowett, M Doveston

29th May 2005

St.Ives 0650 - short walk
Wood Warbler, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler, GSWdpkr, Green Wdpkr,
no sign of Redsart on territory for another year

Dick Hudson's to 12 Apostles to Hawksworth to Dick Hudsons
1200-1600. 1 Golden Plover, Redshank, Curlew, Lapwing
Linnet, Skylark

M Doveston

28th May 2005

St.Ives 0700
Garden Warbler, Wood Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher
no sign of Pied Fly Little Owl, Tawny Owl
Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Sparrowhawk

Wharfe Valley 1030-1400
Osprey, Red Kite, 5+Buzzard
Kestrel, Herring Gull

Chelker Res
4 Tufted Duck

Silsden Res
3 Oystercatcher, 2 Cormorant

Redcar Tarn
10x Tufted Duck

M Doveston

27th May 2005

Lindley Wood Res
RL partridge, bullfinch, garden warbler, GCG on nest

26th May 2005

undisclosed site
nightjar churring and LEO

24th May 2005

Hirst Wood
2x male Pied Flycatcher

Wharfe Valley
2 ospreys

Undisclosed site
nightjar (seen but no churring), LEO (inc young), SEO, tree pipit, 6 woodcock, redstart, 2 snipe, 3 kestrel,oystercatcher, singing redpoll and goldcrest

23rd May 2005

undisclosed site
LEO, 2 woodcock, 2 tree pipit, tawny owl

22nd May 2005

Small Private Lake
GSWP, chiffchaff, garden warbler, kestrel,goosander, canada geese with young, mute swan

Cold Edge dam
pair stonechat,wheatear, common sand, redshank

Fly Flatts Res
14 canadas with 18 young, wheatear, common sand, cuckoo

21st May 2005

Doe Park Reservoir 0700
1 Black-headed Gull on the expanding shoreline

Bents Lane
Little Owl

Goit Stock 0730-0820
1 Dipper plus another with well grown juvenile, 2 Chiffchaff
Blackcap, Grey Wagtails carrying food, Juv Song Thrush

Harden Moor 0830-0930
Garden Warbler, Tree Pipit, Stonechat carrying food
Linnets, Green Woodpkr, Weasel

St.Ives 0940-1240
2 Spotted Flycatcher, male Pied Flycatcher singing,
Coots, Moorhen, Mallard & Canada Geese all with young
Nuthatch, Blackcap, Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff
Wood Warbler, young Long-tailed Tits, GSWdpkr, Kestrel

M Doveston

20th May 2005

Knotford area
LSWP, dipper, pochard, goosander

Ernest scarfe

18th May 2005

St.Ives
singing Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Blackcap
also present: Jay, Blackbird with young

M Doveston

17th May 2005

St.Ives
Spotted Flycatcher, Tawny Owl, Blackcap, Chiffchaff
Nuthatch, +usual woodland species

Wilsden
House Martins back at Birchlands colony

M Doveston

15th May 2005

Hebers Ghyll Wood
3-4 wood warbler, cuckoo, tree pipit

Leathley
3 tree sparrows ringed

Keighley (yesterday)
osprey over

Dave Kidman, Simon Goodwin, Andy Jowett, Ian Hargreaves

13th May 2005

St.Ives 0700-0815
male Pied Flycatcher, male Spotted Flycatcher, Wood Warbler
Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Treecreeper, Swallows, Jay nest building

M Doveston

12th May 2005

Hebers Ghyll Wood
2-3 cuckoo, 3 wood warbler

Marley Brow
pied flycatcher

Small Private Lake
dipper, GSWP at nest, pair ruddy duck, blackcap, chiffchaff

Lippersley Pike
whinchat, stonechat

Members Only SW
garden and sedge warbler

Private Wetland pm visit
7 GCGrebe, 2 Little Grebe, Curlew, Redshank, Lapwing
Oystercatcher, Common Gull, 2 Common Tern, Sedge Wblr
Blackcap, 100s of Hirundines and Swifts, Tufted Ducks

A Jowett, S Goodwin, J Flood, M Doveston