{"id":14845,"date":"2026-03-23T15:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14845"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:47:25","slug":"redpoll-in-shipley-glen-17-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/redpoll-in-shipley-glen-17-march-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Redpoll in Shipley Glen. 17 March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After spending some of the morning of the 17th watching Siskin at the Baildon Co-op<\/a> car park I decided to spend some of the afternoon in Shipley Glen<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The header image is of a Redpoll spotted in Shipley Glen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Redpoll<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Having had a very quiet walk in the Glen with the Airedale and Bradford RSPB group on Sunday (see here RSPB & Shipley Glen. 15 March 2026<\/a>) I was hoping that a visit on Tuesday would make up for it. The variety of birds spotted was still not great but getting sight of a flock of Redpoll made up for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though there were several birds in the flock I was lucky to spot them, tiny silhouettes. A lone Siskin was with them too. They were quiet and busy eating high up in the trees. I tried moving up the slopes of the Glen to get at a better height for the view. I even got up onto the flat of Bracken Hall Green but this meant that more trees were getting in the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With my eyes I can’t control how bright I see things, the bright sky made the birds too dark to see much of their colouring. With my camera though I dialled in some positive exposure compensation to make the birds brighter, at the same time I was careful not to go too far with it and blow out the sky.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Others<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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I think on this visit the Robins were the noisy ones with a reasonable number a Great Tits calling from several places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Down at Crag Hebble Dam a Grey Heron came in looking for fish. I only saw it catch one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the afternoon moved on the Sun started to make quite a contrast on the narrow branches towards the tops of some of the trees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Track<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The squiggles show where I wandered taking the photos. You can move around the map by dragging, you can also zoom in or out, or make the map full screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n