Monday 14 May 2012

Langsett - Mickleden - Midhope

Langsett Banks - 9 singing Blackcaps and 1 singing Wood Warbler.
Hingcliff Common - 1 Cuckoo.
Mickleden Beck - 1 Common Buzzrd, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls (eventually leaving south) and 2 male Ring Ouzels.
Low Moor, Upper Midhope - 6 Greylag Geese, seven broods Lapwing (15+ young), one brood Curlew (1+ young), 1 brood Snipe (4 young) and at least six pairs Linnet.

Mammals - 1 Pygmy Shrew.
Butterflies - 1 Orange Tip, 1 Dingy Skipper and 3 Green-veined Whites.

2 comments:

shelleynaturalist said...

Could you supply a grid ref for the Dingy Skipper, that is a good record for the locality please.

Martin Wells said...

Beside the footpath leading from North America Farm by the side of North America Wood (Mauk Royd)
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