Monday, July 13, 2009

Fly Flats and Cold Edge

Cold Edge - this afternoon
1 Barnacle Goose and 1 Tufted Duck on the lower dam

Fly Flats
1 Oystercatcher
2 Common Sandpipers
5 Twite sightings (flyovers - but some could have been the same birds. None at the feeding station !
1 Sand Martin through >W
1 female Reed Bunting
5 Rooks - not often seen at this site
c220 Canada Geese
several Meadow Pipits and 2 Skylarks

Oxenhope - just out of our area near the junction of the Hebden Bridge/Fly Flats road I was looking for Twite and disturbed an adult Cuckoo in heather/billberry - not sure if it was eating fruit or caterpillars, even so it was a very pleasant surprise.

1 comment:

Nick Carter said...

Checked the east side of Midgley Moor at weekend, no twite I'm afraid :(