All the Birds
of the Aire
Wednesday, 9th March 2005
Wild West Yorkshire nature diary
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Our route alongside the River Aire takes
us past a derelict mill, a burnt-out stock car track and a
smashed up riverside building but this vandalised wasteland
has plenty of quiet rural corners: fishermen shelter under
olive green umbrellas and a jogger thanks us for letting him
get by.
Goldfinches are feeding on the cones of
the riverside alders, mallards are preening
in the shallows below the steep riverbank. A teal
zooms down near a drake mallard then swims behind a fallen
crack willow. Perhaps it is nesting there.
A pied wagtail struts around on an old timber
landing stage then flies across the river with bobbing flight.
At a fork in the river in Hunslet we see three drake goosanders
diving. |
