Last Night at Withens Clough

A very poor night with low temperature ,clear skies and Northerly wind.
12 Square Spot Rustic
20+ Lesser Yellow Underwing
5 Large Yellow Underwing
1 Dark arches
2 Antler Moth
1 Chevron
1 Purple Bar
1 Shuttle Shaped dart
4 Common Wainscot
3 Smoky Wainscot
That was it.?

Small Copper

8 Small copper
1 Purple Hairestreak(female)
15 Speckled wood
10 peacock
1 Gatekeeper
4 small Tortoiseshell
2 Nuthatch
2 willow warbler
2 GS Woodpecker
2 Skylark

Sun at Last

Yesterday evening saw 2 Swift,3 House martin,1 sand martin and 100+ Swallows all heading s/w
Today was sunny for the first time since.........mmmmmm last week sometime.
20+ peacock
1 Red Admiral
10 small White
2 Large White
4 Speckled Wood
6 Small Copper
1 Gatekeeper
Last nights Moths
1 Grey Chi
2 Antler Moths
2 Dusky Brocade
1 Six Striped Rustic
2 Small Square Spot
4 Square Spot Rustic
1 Single Dotted wave
1 Scalloped Oak

The Sallow

The first autumunal moth last night was this Sallow,also Antler Moth and Small Dusty Wave

Pontefract Vis

07.30 - 11.30
1 Yellow wag s/w
8 Swifts s/w
10 House martin s/w
8 Sand martin s
50 Swallows bloggingd
other
Yellowhammer 20+
Linnet 50+
Red Legged partridgge 10

SWIFTS

1 Swift s/w
I usually have Swifts here until about the first week in september.There are a few early October records in Calderdale

Pontefract bird survey.

Just finished a bird survey for a small industrial site off junction 34 of M62.
2 pairs lesser whitethroat
10 pairs Yellowhammer
9 pairs Corn Bunting
1 pair Barn Owl
3 pairs Yellow Wagtail
1 pair Willow Tit
8 pairs Tree sparrow
8 pairs sand Martin
14 pairs whitethroat
Its only 1/2 hour from Fax.????????
Start winter survey in Linconshire in september ..............watch this space.

More Rain.

1 Swift s/w
1 Willow Warbler north along hedge then high north.
4 LBBGull west
1 Grey wag s/w
25 BHGull s/w
1 female Sprwk

August?

A very poor couple of days with high winds and rain.A few LBBGulls west,100+ Swallows last night and 30 Goldfinch.jays seem to on the move and a male Sprwk has been terrorising the ever increasing Collared Dove population.The only moth of note was a migrant Silver Y.

Swallows

At least 50 Swallows feeding over the frount field last night.1 Sparrowhawk,a few BH Gulls and 2 distant Peregrines over Southowram.10 LTTits were the first for the autumn.

Welsh Wave and Anomalous

Welsh Wave and thr Anomalous

An Hours vis - mig and a 'Charm' of Goldfinch

The first decent finch flock of the autumn 25 Goldfinch in front field this morning.
5 Swift(1 blogging ,4 s/w)
3 LBB Gull s/w
2 Great spotted Woodpecker
1 Kestrel

National Moth Night(after work)

Blake Dean was the spot for NMN,and a great night it was.
7 Lesser Swallow Prominent
1 Welsh Wave
2 Twin Spot Carpet
4 Gold Spot
3 Early Thorn(second generation)
2 Common white Wave
25+ Northern spinach
2 Chevron
2 Engrailed (second generation)
1 ANOMALOUS(female)
1 Large Ear
10+ Antler Moth
10 + True Lovers Knot
1 Common Footman
2 Straw Dot
+ common species.

U just car'nt get um all

Working hard feeding the general public an Saturday night is bad enough ,but when all your mates ,are been spoon fed an AVOCET at whiteholm its just too much.ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

The Olive

The Olive a poor shot of a good species for the garden,The 10th new species this year,along with Pale Pinion,Buff Tip,Pale Tussock,Straw Dot,Fryer's Pug,Small Dotted Buff,Pinion Streaked Snout,Shaded Broad Bar andThe Olive

Gatekeeper

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Walk round the Cricket Pitch

2 Skylark,1 GS Woodpecker,3 Stock Dove,1 Kestrel,1 Grey Heron 6 House Sparrow and a Pied Wag calling high up heading s/w.




R.I.P.............Yangtze River Dolphin ,The four Moutain Gorilla's and Leeds United.(all very sad)

Last Swifts ?

2 Swifts yesterday could have been the last of the resident swifts to leave Northowram.a few more migrants and that will be it for another year,It is also the start of autumn Vis(visible migration)lets hope for those Mipits(meadow pipits )heading south west soon.!!!!!

Breeding Birds

An excellent year despite the rain,with House sparrow breeding for the first time in the eaves ,at least 10 juvs,Nuthatch with 2 juv's,Displaying whitethroat,Little Owl, Tawny owl,Blackcap Green and Great spot Woodpecker all doing well also a Juv Stonechat (they must be somewhere close?).

Freyer's Pug

1 of 6 recorded this year the first on the 16th of June.Only the second record for Calderdale the first been on the 15th June by NCDawtry at Pellon.(i think)

A good year so far

White - letter Hairstreak a new species for Northowram,also this year so far - Ringlet(also a first),Gatekeeper(another first),Small Skipper,Peacock,Red Admiral, Speckled wood,Small,Green Veined and large Whites,Small Tortoiseshell,Meadow Brown,Comma and Orange Tip

Buff Tip

A new species for the garden also on the 14th July 2007

Peacock released by the boys this week

The Blackneck

The Blackneck recorded on the 14th July a first for Calderdale(i think?)

Peacock Butterfly's

The boys found about 20 Peacock butterfly catterpillers on the nettle patch in the frount field in June.We raised them through and 8 flew this week.There were also 2' Nettle Tap'moths in with them.

Back on line at Last

Last week was very cool at night with clear skies but a few new micro's for the year were Red - barred Tortrix and Ypsolopha sequella.

Northowram so far this Year

What a great year so far with,Osprey,Woodcock,White-letter Hairstreak,Ringlet,Gatekeeper,Buff Tip,The Blackneck(a first for Calderdale) and many more to come.