Phil Andrews
It's only Rock and Roller but I like it
Thanks for the info Phil
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Thanks for the info Phil
Zarapito
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In December there were plenty of brambling with flocks of over 100 seen but I haven't heard mention of any since Christmas. Strid Wood is as close as I get to having a local patch so your report of their return was a pleasant surprise.
We had a good day there today with a dipper flying under Barden Bridge just as we arrived and another pair near the Cavendish later, two pairs of goosander, goldcrest, a number of nuthatch, a treecreeper, mistle thrush, buzzard, long tailed tit, a small mixed flock of chaffinch and brambling, probably 30/40 birds in total, and on the return leg 55 mandarins (a personal record). We also saw at least a dozen song thrushes mostly at the Barden end of the circuit. I would have thought that it was a bit early for the migrant thrushes to be starting to flock?
Graeme
loiner
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Hi Keith,
I was there on Sunday evening for the WeBS count. As far as white-winged gulls go, there is usually a Med Gull somewhere in the roost, but with up to 25000 Black-headed/Common Gulls it's not an easy job to find it. There are never many large gulls of any species, indeed in the last 15 years there have only been two Glaucs and three Iceland Gulls found.
Of interest there was a drake Smew on Harewood Park Lake on the morning WeBS count there, presumably the same bird as on the January count.
loiner do you do the webs count from the perimeter fence or do you have access to the reservoir bank?
loiner
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Hi Keith,
I'm fortunate to have a key from Yorkshire Water which allows me access inside the fence and to the western end of the reservoir (not that a lack of a key stops a stream of trespassers).
I know about the trespassers, there were 3 down the western end on Sunday afternoon with a lurcher type dog. They walked down from the dam wall on the northern side and then must have gone through the fence somewhere down the western end as they disappeared behind bushes and never reappeared. I've often wondered about doing that myself but as I generally come to the reservoir down Goodrick Lane or across the golf course I'd have to walk halfway round the res in order to hop over the wall.
Just come up Twitter and Facebook, Cetti's warbler at Fairburn Ings, nr Lin Dyke hide.
WACCOE
Marching on Together
Hope it sticks around.
On the swilly website it mentions the railway embankment, so that would be just after you drive thru the railway arch and park on the left, I think.
loiner
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Another option is to park (carefully, as Yorkshire Water tankers visit through the week at least) on the approach track to Lemonroyd Sewage Works (on the bend just past the farm), then walk down the road and under the railway bridge. Turn right just after the bridge along a narrow muddy path (with a horse paddock on your left and the railway line to the right). The bird (birds?) is often in the bushes within 100 yards of the road (up to the start of the Marina), but I've seen it as often in the plantation between the Sewage Works and the railway line (i.e. on the right just before the railway bridge).
You could always call in at the hide and ask for the latest news there.
northernloon
swimming in a virtual sea
Sounds like the dogger's car park to me, where the Xbills weren't last year 
Chris-Leeds
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Opposite the car park (which is closed at the moment) and adjacent to the horse paddock is where I saw the two chiffys on saturday. The views I had meant I didn't know which of the two was the sibe but one was fluffier than the other.
Dawn Chorus Meet thread here http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=277661
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