Bitterly cold wind yesterday and the recent rain had left some small
remnant flooding in the Bottom Fields. As I was hanging out some washing (ah,
the jet-setting life of a Yorkshire birder!) I could hear geese so I headed
down that way.
A good sized Lapwing flock flew in, around 200 birds, but
instead of landing in the flood field they did their flickering predator
reaction and headed off south-east. The cause soon appeared, a cracking male
Peregrine. The first I have had for a couple of years. It did one quick sweep over
the fields and then powered off through The Gap between Ainderby & Morton.
On the floods and neighbouring fields there were a total of just
over 50 Greylags…
75 Black-headed Gulls, six Mallard and eight Curlew…
The only other birds I added to my year list were a pair of
Teal on the Magic Garden lake, a single Common Gull with the Black-headed Gulls
and a handful of Skylarks in the Back Lane fields. A flock of 11 Siskin flew high east over the
Magic Garden.
Late in the evening I saw seven smaller geese flying over, I
didn’t have bins and it was almost dark but there were seven Whitefronted Geese
at Scaling Dam today, I wonder…
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