Withens Clough Stretch

Withens Clough 3.45-5.00pm. Cold, with a light breeze, some cloud and some sun.
Species seen
6 linnets
2 willow warblers seen. Others heard.
2 wheatears
3 curlew
2 common sandpiper
4 reed buntings
c10 swallows
c25 mipits
2 pheasant
Plus titmice, gold and chaffinch, jackdaws, carrion crows, blackbirds, canadas with goslings.

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Evening stroll- Elmet

A walk before dusk.
2 roe deer
1 greater spotted woodpecker
1 peregrine
1 raven
jackdaws going to roost
2 tawny owls calling
plus the usual bird species.
And so to the snug.

Hubberton Sowerby Walk

A walk this am,, starting 9.30. Cold, fairly still, some cloud and some sunshine.

1 snipe
15 lapwing
6 golden plover
5 curlew
1 reed bunting
1 kestrel
1 raven
2 skylarks
plenty of swallows and house martins
lots of meadow pipits
Plus the usual species

Lots of changes close to Crow Hill, including knocking down dry stone walls, a trench dug, work on a bridleway/track using hard core etc. Looks like bigger fields are being created. Usually at this time of year the area is very wet, so the presumably the farmer has been taking advantage of the dry weather to make the changes. Hawthorn planting seems to in fashion in the area.

A good dander but the changes to the scape are a bit worrying.

And again...

Yesterday Elland Gravel Pits
Getting hard to see the warblers with the leaves out on the trees.

5 willow warblers
3 blackcaps
1 reed warbler
1 sedge warbler
6 reed buntings
1 kestrel

Plus usual species.

Butterflies
green veined white
large white
peacock