Category: Paul’s Blog
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Great Spotted Woodpeckers in Ferniehurst Dell 31 May 2018
Today I went into Ferniehurst Dell playing Ingress and heard lots of wildlife, the most exciting of which was Great Spotted Woodpecker. I could hear the rapid chirp of juveniles so I went home to get my camera. With the noise that they make it is easy to find the tree but it can take…
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River Aire and Denso Marston Nature Reserve 27 May 2018
On Sunday I went for a walk along the river Aire and through Denso Marston Nature Reserve. One of the first things I did was go down river a bit on the path behind the new industrial estate and look for the Long Tailed Tit nest that I had seen before and written about here.…
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Mining Bees and Harlequins
During the hot days we have had this month we had quite a few bees in the garden. A lot were flying from blossom to blossom as you would expect of a pollinator but quite a few were hovering over the soil of the flower beds and grass at the front of our house. (To…
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Baildon Moor 24 May 2018
On Thursday afternoon I had yet another walk on Baildon Moor and of course took my camera with me. Something that was noticeable was how misty it was in the distance. This view towards Ovenden has the wind turbines shrouded. This is very different to a photo I took from the sides of Reeva Reservoir…
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Baildon Moor, mid May 2018
These are some photos from a few trips up to Baildon Moor in mid May. Some are from the extended walk I took after going on the guided walk along Shipley Glen One of the brief visitors to Baildon Moor are Wheatear who drop down onto the upper West corner to feed up before heading…
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Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Birding
On Sunday 20 May 2018 Bracken Hall Countryside Centre hosted a 2 hour walk along Shipley Glen. It was guided by Paul King, a local birder who is also a member of Bradford Ornithological Group. It was great having Paul guide the walk, he has tremendous local knowledge built up over many years of birding…
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Baildon Moor 7 May ’18
I had another walk up on Baildon Moor on Monday. I am retired and had promised myself that I would keep away from Baildon Moor on weekends and bank holidays. Leave those times for people that work Monday to Friday. But it was just too nice a day to miss. The Mistle Thrush, above, was…
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The first week of May
One of my posts within the Baildon facebook community was of a view of Hawksworth Hall taken from Bradford Golf Course in the 1930s. You can see the 1930s photo here. Several people said they had not seen a view of Hawksworth Hall like this so, as promised, on Tuesday 1 May 2018 I went…