Sunday 31st August a.m.
A bright sunny morning with a strongish wind blowing and a temperature of 13°C as I took a walk around Hewenden Reservoir. Not much to report with regards to birds, plenty BH Gulls & a distant Common Sandpiper plus a Kestrel. A good walk though with a Wall Brown Butterfly and a couple of Swallows keeping the interest going.
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| Distant Common Sandpiper |
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| BH Gulls & Geese |
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| BH Gulls |
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| Wall Brown |
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| Top end of the res |
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| Dam Wall of res |
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| Hewenden Res 31/8/2025 |
Wednesday 27th August a.m.
A bright sunny morning with a temperature of 16°C as I arrived at Leeshaw seeing c50 Canadas in the lower field. The water level keeps falling here and four Red-legged Partridge were on some of the exposed shore. Also a couple of Grey Herons & a Cormorant, Gulls, Little Owl, Goldfinch, Mipits, Lapwing & Linnet.
I then went to Leeming Res on my way home where House Martins & Swallows were flying around. There were a good number of BH Gulls on the far shore with 10 LBB Gulls & a Herring Gull. Also Kestrel, Grey Heron, Red-legged Partridge, Goldfinch & Chiffchaff.
Little Owl
Goldfinch
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| Red-legged Partridge |
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| Mipits |
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| Linnet |
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| Cormorant |
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| Kestrel |
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| Grey Heron |
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| LBB Gulls |
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| LBB, BH & Herring Gull |
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| Leeshaw Res |
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| Leeming Res 27/8/2025 |
Thursday 21st August a.m.
A cloudy morning feeling cooler at 13°C with c50 LBB Gulls, 3 Herring Gulls & 20 BH Gulls at the Tarn. There was a Grey Heron in the water and several Lapwings were having a snooze on the island. Others were Pied Wagtail, Jackdaw, Rook & Tufted.
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| LBB Gull |
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| Herring Gull |
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| Grey Heron |
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| Pied Wagtail |
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| Jackdaw |
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| Lapwing |
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| Rook |
Monday 11th August a.m.
After a cloudy start the sun started to come through as I arrived at Leeshaw with a temperature of 16°C. There were c100 Canadas in the field as l headed up the track, later these came over on to the res. The water level here is very low, I don't think I've seen it this low so early before, still on the bright side there's plenty of shore line. There were good numbers of Gulls mainly LBB & BH but also Herring & Common were present. There were two Cormorants & Goldfinch were feeding on the Thistle seeds others were Lapwing, House Martin & Swallow, then I spotted three birds at the edge of the water with their heads down snoozing. My first thought was Black-tailed Godwit but it was an age before one lifted its head so I could see the long bill to confirm they were Godwits. This is a first for me locally so started to get some pictures, they were soon surrounded by Canadas and began to move and feed, an excellent morning.
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| Black-tailed Godwit |
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| Cormorant |
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| Goldfinch |
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| LBB Gulls |
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| BH, Common Gull & Canada |
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| Black-tailed Godwits & Canadas at Leeshaw 11/8/2025 |
Sunday 10th August a.m.
A bright sunny morning at 15°C, the bird of the morning was Whitethroat with several seen. There were House Martins & a couple of Swifts feeding over the tree tops and a charm of Goldfinch flew past. A Chiffchaff was in a tree and a Kestrel was seen plus a few Butterflies.
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| Whitethroat |
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| Goldfinch |
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| Chiffchaff |
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| Large White |
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| Whitethroats |
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| Harden Moor 10/8/2025 |
