The new path (yet to be named - suggestions welcome!) is turning up some treats today with a family of redstarts (male, female and juvenile) flitting in and out of a hawthorn bush just past the first bench. A little further along the turtle doves are still showing from the wires on the other side of the river. Also by the river were a family of willow tits and a yellowhammer.
A jay seen at the feeder screen and on the wildlife garden feeders we had an unusual visitor in the form of a juvenile siskin, a bird we usually only see in Fairburn over the winter.
Kingfisher sightings reported from the kingfisher screen and the pond dipping platform - obviously not put off by the visiting school party!
2 spoonbills can still be seen either from Cut Lane or Village Bay Hide. Also 2 black-tailed godwits seen from Cut Lane.
Hi Rob, thanks for the suggestion. We are looking for a more descriptive name for the path, naming it after somebody would be a lovely gesture but might not give people who wish to use it much of an idea of what the path is like.
We'll add your suggestion to the pot anyway.
thanks, Beki
Hi Bryony
I reported Redstarts again this morning on the community group, however I have thought of a name for the Riverside Trail - The Ken Dawson riverside Walk - Ken Dawson was my Father and one of the founders of Fairburn back in 1950's with the Leeds and District Birdwatchers Club, he visited the Ings nearly every day from the 1950's till his death in 1986. He was also a wildlife artist and painted many images of the wildlife at the Ings, some of which the RSPB used as greetings cards - just a thought anyway
regards
Rob