Yeadon Tarn

Saturday 5th November a.m.
 A bright sunny start at Yeadon Tarn with a temperature of 5°C and feeling cold in the strong wind coming across the water.There was a good selection of birds on the water the best of these being four Great Crested Grebes,three Goosanders and three Cormorants.One of the Grebes caught a large fish which will have served it well for breakfast.Other birds on the water were Mallards,Coots,Tufted Ducks,BH & Common Gulls and Moorhen.There were also ten Mute Swans, two of which were juveniles and we spotted one yellow tag ring number 437 on an adult.After a walk round we headed back towards the car park seeing four Lapwing fly over and around ten Goldfinch high in the trees.We also had a first for this site when a bird flew in to the trees in front of us, with the bins we saw it was a Great Spotted Woodpecker, we even managed to get a snap before it flew away to round off the morning.

GSW a site first

Goldfinch

Cormorant

Goosander

Gt Crested Grebe

Fish for breakfast

Mute Swans

Tufted Duck

Looking across the Tarn from the airport end

plenty jetting off to no doubt warmer climates

Yeadon Tarn 5/11/2016