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Thursday, 4 March 2021
February 2021 Bird Sightings
Mute Swan,
Whooper Swan,
Canada Goose,
Mallard,
Tufted Duck,
Goldeneye,
Goosander,
Little Grebe,
Cormorant,
Grey Heron,
Buzzard,
Sparrowhawk,
Kestrel,
Moorhen,
Coot,
Woodcock,
Black-headed Gull,
Common Gull,
Stock Dove,
Wood Pigeon,
Tawny Owl,
Kingfisher,
Green Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker,
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker,
Meadow Pipit,
Pied Wagtail,
Grey Wagtail,
Dipper,
Dunnock,
Robin,
Song Thrush,
Redwing,
Mistle Thrush,
Blackbird,
Firecrest,
Goldcrest,
Wren,
Great Tit,
Blue Tit,
Coal Tit,
Long-tailed Tit,
Nuthatch,
Treecreeper,
Magpie,
Jay,
Carrion Crow,
Chaffinch,
Linnet,
Lesser Redpoll,
Goldfinch,
Siskin,
Bullfinch,
Reed Bunting.
Many thanks to Jeff, Dan, Mike H, David, Graham and Allan for sharing their sightings.
Friday, 12 February 2021
Todays Visit
Redpoll, Siskin and LTT seen today, also seen were,
Firecrest, Jay, Cormorant, Gooseander, Heron, Wren,
lots of Bullfinch and 100's of Wood Pigeons on the move.
Thursday, 4 February 2021
Bird Sightings January 2021
Mute Swan Snipe Goldcrest
Whooper Swan Black-headed Gull Wren
Pink-footed Goose Common Gull Great Tit
Canada Goose Stock Dove Coal Tit
Mallard Wood Pigeon Blue Tit
Teal Kingfisher Long-tailed Tit
Goldeneye Great Spotted Woodpecker Nuthatch
Goosander Meadow Pipit Magpie
Cormorant Grey Wagtail Jay
Grey Heron Dipper Carrion Crow
Buzzard Dunnock Chaffinch
Sparrowhawk Robin Lesser Redpoll
Kestrel Song Thrush Goldfinch
Peregrine Redwing Siskin
Water Rail Blackbird Bullfinch
Moorhen Reed Bunting
Thanks to Jeff, Mike, Allan, Lyn and Hayley for their sightings
Tuesday, 12 January 2021
Tuesday, 5 January 2021
Bird Sightings December 2020
Mute Swan, Whooper Swan, Canada Goose, Mallard, Goosander,
Cormorant, Little Egret, Grey Heron, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk
Moorhen, Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Herring Gull,
L.B.B Gull, Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail,
Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Blue Tit,
Long-tailed Tit, Nuthatch, Magpie, Jay, Raven, Carrion Crow,
Chaffinch, Lesser Redpoll, Goldfinch, Siskin, Bullfinch,
Reed Bunting, Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush
Thanks to Jeff, Allan, Mike and Graham for sharing their sightings.
Friday, 11 December 2020
Bird Sightings November 2020
Mute Swan,Canada Goose, Mallard, Goosander, Little Grebe, Cormorant, Grey Heron,Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Moorhen, Snipe, Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Stock Dove, Wood Pigeon, Tawny Owl, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, Dunnock, Robin Blackbird Goldcrest Firecrest Great Tit Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Magpie, Jay, Carrion Crow, Chaffinch, Redpoll, Goldfinch, Siskin, Bullfinch
Many thanks to Jeff Milne, Mike Henshaw, Allan Wolfenden and Graham Haigh for sharing their sightings.
The highlight on the list is firecrest which is a very unusual sighting for Calderdale.
Saturday, 7 November 2020
Bird Sightings October 2020
Mute Swan, Canada Goose, Mallard, Mandarin Duck, Tufted Duck, Goosander, Cormorant, Grey Heron, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Moorhen, Coot, Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Herring Gull, Lesser Black Backed Gull, Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, Tawnt Owl, Barn Owl, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Meadow Pipit, Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Dipper, Dunnock, Robin, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Mistle Thrush, Goldcrest, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Wren, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Magpie, Jay, Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Chaffinch, Brambling, Goldfinch, Siskin, Redpoll, Bullfinch
Many thanks to Jeff, Mike, Graham and Allan for supplying their sightings
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
Bird Sightings September 2020
Mute Swan, Mallard, Goosander, Cormorant, Grey Heron, Buzzard, Moorhen, Common
Sandpiper, Black-headed Gull, Stock Dove, Wood Pigeon, Tawny Owl, Barn Owl, Kingfisher,
Great Spotted Woodpecker, House Martin, Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, Dunnock, Robin,
Stonechat, Wheatear, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff,
Wren, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Nuthatch, Magpie, Jay, Jackdaw,
Carrion Crow, Chaffinch, Redpoll, Goldfinch, Siskin, Bullfinch, Greenfinch.
Many thanks
to Jeff, Mike, Allan and Graham for their contributions
Sunday, 27 September 2020
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Bird Sightings August 2020
Mute Swan
Grey Heron
Mallard
Cormorant
Buzzard
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Moorhen
Coot
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Stock Dove
Wood Pigeon
Barn Owl
Swift
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Swallow
House Martin
Meadow Pipit
Grey Wagtail
Dipper
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Song Thrush
Mistle Thrush
Blackcap
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff
Wren
Long Tailed Tit
Great Tit
Coal Tit
Blue Tit
Nuthatch
Magpie
Jay
Jackdaw
Rook
Carrion Crow
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Bullfinch
Many thanks to Jeff Milne Mike Henshaw and David Langley for their sightings.
Monday, 10 August 2020
Share your Favourite Sightings from Summer and Autumn 2020
The newsletter team are publishing your fave sightings over the summer and autumn of 2020, in the autumn edition to be out on 1 October 2020. We would love to know what your favourites are - animal, bird, insect, fish, view of any part of the reserve, whatever you love about Cromwell Bottom LNR. If you have a photo then fabulous, please include it but no matter if you don't. Just need your name (first name only if you prefer) and the month taken, and of course what it is.
Please send us your best to
We will send you your very own copy of the newsletter upon publication or print one for you and hand over in the car park!
Lyn, Val, Jane (newsletter team)
Wednesday, 5 August 2020
Bird Sightings July 2020
Mallard
Cormorant
Grey Heron
Buzzard
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Moorhen
Black-headed Gull
Wood Pigeon
Swift
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Meadow Pipit
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Mistle Thrush
Willow Warbler
Wren
Great Tit
Coal Tit
Blue Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Nuthatch
Treecreeper
Magpie
Jay
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Bullfinch
Greenfinch
Apologies for the short list this month.
Thanks to Jeff, Martin and Alan Ockerly for giving me their sightings.
Sunday, 2 August 2020
Sunday, 5 July 2020
Bird Sightings June 2020
Mute Swan
Mallard
Goosander
Little Grebe
Cormorant
Grey Heron
Buzzard
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Moorhen
Coot
Black-headed Gull
Stock Dove
Wood Pigeon
Cuckoo
Swift
Kingfisher
Swallow
House Martin
Meadow Pipit
Grey Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
Song Thrush
Mistle Thrush
Blackbird
Garden Warbler
Blackcap
Whitethroat
Reed Warbler
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff
Wren
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Nuthatch
Magpie
Jay
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Bullfinch
Greenfinch
Reed Bunting
Many thanks to Jeff and Mike for contributing to the generation of this list.
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Chair report
Chairman
Report June 2019 to June 2020
Firstly,
I would like to thank all the volunteers, without your help and support nothing
of what we achieve would be possible. SPECIAL thanks to Allan for his work as
chairman sadly Allan had to give up his role to focus on other things and with
no other candidate wishing to take up the role at this time I agreed to step in
,however this next year should I be re-elected
will be my last.
Also, many
thanks to Rosemary and Margret for their commitment and hard work and to the
ladies and gents who look after the café they do a brilliant job. The next part
I will keep as short as possible and go through the year on a month by month basis.
In June Allan stepped down as Chair ,
Yorkshire wildlife trust started repairs to the river bank and we started doing
some path upgrades , and we found out we had won a grant of £22130 from the restrict
big local the trailer that had been
purchased the previous month arrived on site. We had our first stall at the
Brighouse gala
July saw us make 60 bird boxes in kit
form and donate them to Old Earth School Elland and our volunteers took the to
the school and with the children’s parents put them together at the school.
Plans were ongoing for the viewing platform
and thanks to Tesco’s and Brighouse Ladies Circle for their kind donations of a
joint £7300 the platform was completed in November/ December
August
saw us with a
problem with the RBL grant we had previously put in for moneys to complete an
upgrade to a path from the William Henry school in Rastrick to the reserve ,with
us not wining the vote we were left with the remainder of £65000 which was not
enough to complete the proposed contract at £22300,as quotes were £33000 going
back to the RBl committee we asked if we could spend the money on the reserve
and this was granted .
We have
always wanted the reserve to be for all to this end we asked a group called
access for all to look at the reserve and recommend where we could improve
things for disabled individuals or groups, this they did and we received the
report with their recommendations , 2 of these were a disabled toilet and
upgrade the paths .
September saw changes in the committee with Rosemary
(treasurer) and Margret (grants) leaving created a large hole for us to fill,
and I would like to thank them both for their commitment and hard work.
My thanks
to Jeff Milne who agreed to fill the treasures role at short notice and was
duly elected on to the committee.
Some great
news was we had Barn Owls nesting on site, after being checked with the BTO representative
Steve Downing was found to be a female on 4 eggs 3 of which went on to fledge
October saw the handover of accounts from Rosemary
to Jeff.
After discussions
we decided to use the RBL grant money for upgrading the paths on the reserve which
considered with the access for all review, this was put to RBL and was granted
we could use the money for that project.
Prices were collected and preferred contractor
selected, time scale agreed which was November to mid-December.
Val and
Lynda were very studious and put together a stunning book on Cromwell called Thank
you for the days this is still available at £10 from the cabin when we reopen,
along with a second book on our Barn Owls also £10 from the cabin (not many left).
November It rained and rained and rained just as we had started to do the path
upgrades however this did not deter our contractor and paths from the bailey
bridge to the bird feeding area was
first , the bund path between the lagoon and wet woodland was next we were
hoping to make this a wheelchair accessible
path but trees and unstable ground made it impossible however it
did make a fine path and a lot safer.
December it was still raining work continued
on the paths the top
Medlow path
was scraped and cleaned and the only path outside the reserve was started up to
the railway line ,this was knee deep in mud in places and with Old Earth School
children using this path it was decided to upgrade it this was completed by mid-December
and it was still raining , some of the
paths will need looking at again in the summer when properly dry.
On one of
the weekends we donated all our takings from the Café to Overgate Hospice in
memory of Sally Henshaw this is something we like to do is give back something to
others at least once a year.
January still raining, we put in for a grant
for a new disabled toilet and were pleased to find we had been successful, this
has now been purchased and is on site awaiting fitting….
Work continued
on North Loop doing the stock fencing this is for an ESIF GRANT that was won by
Calderdale MBC, and will allow us to graze cattle from August onward, which is
a much gentler way of looking after the meadows.
February to
June covid 19 took its tole and we have had to make the decision to hold everything
until such times as we can get back safely .
Keep safe
and we hope to see you all back soon .
Yours Graham
Haigh chair
Monday, 15 June 2020
Thursday, 4 June 2020
May 2020 Bird Sightings
Mute Swan
Canada Goose
Mallard
Goosander
Little Grebe
Cormorant
Grey Heron
Buzzard
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Moorhen
Oystercatcher
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black Backed Gull
Stock Dove
Wood Pigeon Cuckoo
Swift
Kingfisher
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Skylark
Sand Martin
Swallow
House Martin
Meadow Pipit
Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
Song Thrush
Mistle Thrush
Blackbird
Garden Warbler
Blackcap
Whitethroat
Reed Warbler
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff
Wren
Great Tit
Coal Tit
Blue Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Magpie
Jay
Jackdaw
Rook
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Bullfinch
Hawfinch
Greenfinch
Reed Bunting
55 species in total.
The undoubted highlight is hawfinch. This is a new sighting for the reserve in recent years.
Many thanks to all who have made a contribution to the list.
Canada Goose
Mallard
Goosander
Little Grebe
Cormorant
Grey Heron
Buzzard
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Moorhen
Oystercatcher
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black Backed Gull
Stock Dove
Wood Pigeon Cuckoo
Swift
Kingfisher
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Skylark
Sand Martin
Swallow
House Martin
Meadow Pipit
Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
Song Thrush
Mistle Thrush
Blackbird
Garden Warbler
Blackcap
Whitethroat
Reed Warbler
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff
Wren
Great Tit
Coal Tit
Blue Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Magpie
Jay
Jackdaw
Rook
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Bullfinch
Hawfinch
Greenfinch
Reed Bunting
55 species in total.
The undoubted highlight is hawfinch. This is a new sighting for the reserve in recent years.
Many thanks to all who have made a contribution to the list.
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Covid-19
Hi All
The Sunday Cabin will be closed for now. Thanks for your support.
Graham
CBWG Chair
The Reserve will be open for walks as normal. Always maintain at least 2 metres from others. STAY SAFE
The Sunday Cabin will be closed for now. Thanks for your support.
Graham
CBWG Chair
The Reserve will be open for walks as normal. Always maintain at least 2 metres from others. STAY SAFE
Saturday, 2 May 2020
Bird sightings -April 2020
57
species in total. A very good total considering the lockdown
situation and the recorders are visiting much less often for their
allowable exercise.
The
highlight is undoubtedly the sighting of common scoter. Scoters are
sea ducks and at the beginning of the month there was a large
movement from the west coast to the east. Looks like we had some
tired individuals stopping off for a rest.
The
Spring migrants have started to arrive. The highlight of these were
some very obliging wheatear. An uncommon bird at our reserve.
Many
thanks to all the contributors especially Mike Henshaw, Jeff Milne
and Graham Haigh.
Cromwell
Bottom Bird Sightings April 2020
Mute
Swan Great Black Backed Gull Willow Warbler
Greylag
Goose Stock Dove Chiffchaff
Canada
Goose Wood Pigeon Wren
Mallard
Kingfisher Great Tit
Common
Scoter Great Spotted Woodpecker Coal Tit
Goosander
Skylark Blue Tit
Little
Grebe Sand Martin Long-tailed Tit
Cormorant
Swallow Nuthatch
Grey
Heron House Martin Magpie
Buzzard
Meadow Pipit Jay
Sparrowhawk
Pied Wagtail Jackdaw
Kestrel
Grey Wagtail Rook
Moorhen
Dunnock Carrion Crow
Coot
Robin Starling
Oystercatcher
Wheatear Chaffinch
Black-headed
Gull Song Thrush Goldfinch
Common
Gull Mistle Thrush Bullfinch
Herring
Gull Blackbird Greenfinch
Lesser
Black Backed Gull Blackcap Reed B
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by Vic
Monday, 27 April 2020
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