Wednesday 9 August 2017

Wharfedale , Yorkshire Dales

We went to spend the weekend up in Yorkshire, stopping with our good friends Tim & Wendy.
On the Saturday we went for a walk along the River Wharfe starting out from Addingham.

We had some quality sightings on the walk, starting with a Kingfisher just a few minutes into the walk,
 we were to have four separate sightings as we progressed, but this was the best of them, though it was on the other side of the river.
 There were quite a few female Mandarin Duck about, no sign of any magnificent males though.
 A couple of Grey Heron were seen too.
 As well as plenty of young Goosander, seen in two different places, so that was a total of about 20, unless it was the same group flying up river and sneaking past us!

 At least 3 Grey Wagtail were seen
 and two Dipper sightings although I do think that may have been the same bird,
 the second was in very bad light under some trees, so difficult to say, but it was only about 200 yards from the first.

So a lovely afternoon with 20 species seen in total.

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