Saturday 13th December a.m.
A keen over night frost with the temperature well below zero, but a bright sunny start & the temperature was up to 0°C when we arrived at Yeadon Tarn.The paths had patches of bottle ice so we had to be careful as we walked round the Tarn.Some of the water in the Tarn also was covered in ice with some
Mallards doing ice skating along with
BH Gulls.A record number of 25
Goosanders for us with the males doing some displaying.Some of the females were very low in the water which we have not seen before, we thought this might be part of the courtship.
One of the
Mute Swans was also in a boisterous mood seeing off one of the other Swans, also plenty
House Sparrows around but just one
Pochard which was dosing. After a full circuit we stopped to watch some of the birds being fed, there were several
Tufteds diving then up popped a drake
Goldeneye. This was a surprise & a great thrill being our first of the Winter, these dabbling Ducks are certainly one of my favourites.This sent us off back to the car with a spring in our step & here we had another bonus as a male
Bullfinch was feeding in a nearby tree.
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| Drake Goldeneye |
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| Yeadon Tarn List |
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| male Bullfinch |
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| House Sparrow |
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| Mute Swan on the charge |
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| BH Gull on the ice |
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| male Goosander |
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| female Goosander |
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| Female low in the water near the male |
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| Great to see a Goldeneye back on the Tarn |
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| Yeadon Tarn 13/12/14 |
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