After our visit to Bingley we went to Redcar Tarn high above Keighley where we saw
the usual species of birds in high numbers. The Tufted Duck we saw a couple of weeks
ago with three chicks now only has one, but we saw another Tufted female with four chicks.
There were a couple of Lesser Black Backed Gulls about which were showing some interest
in the chicks.We think the picture below shows a LBB Gull on a drum but there have been
some Yellow-legged Gulls in the area, we're not able to spot the differences between
these very similar Gulls.
c150 BH Gulls
c100 Mallards
c 25 Coot plus chicks
15 Canadas
15 Lapwing
6 Tufted Ducks plus chicks
4 LBB Gulls
3 Moorhen plus chicks
1 Pied Wagtail
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| Redcar Tarn |
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| Tarn Island |
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| Tufted Duck with single growing chick |
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| Tufted Duck with four chicks |
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| LBB Gull |
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| Pied Wagtail |
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| Coot chicks growing well |
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