7°C, cold and overcast with a brisk westerly.
The day got off to a good start with 2 Red Legged Partridges at Ellis Laithe, the first sighting of this species here for 2 years! Then there was a Black-tailed Godwit on the shallows at Anglers CP along with the adult YL and LBb Gulls. A walk round Wintersett Res brought, in the space of 3 minutes, a Yellow Wagtail N, the first SWIFT and a Greenshank NW at 09.55hrs. A Grasshopper Warbler was reeling and displaying in the NE corner. The first 2 Whitethroats were in the west bank corner and the Cetti's was also belting it out. Onto Haw Park Wood where there was a flock of 14 Bramblings and 20 Redpoll.
Also seen in the area today were:
Anglers CP: Common Sandpiper 1, Snipe 1, Curlew 2 and Little Ringed Plover 2. Herring Gull 1 and Great Black-backed Gull 8 over, Teal 2 male + 1 female, Goldeneye 1 male + 3 female,
Wintersett Res: Meadow Pipit 2 N.
Cold Hiendley Res: Willow Tit 2.
Old Royston Flash: Lesser White throat 1
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