Common
Tern |
COMMON
TERN Sterna
hirundo
Increasingly common passage and summer visitor and uncommon breeder.
The first returning birds at Otley Gravel Pits were on 13th April. From this date up to five birds were regularly seen here with three breeding attempts being made, all of which were unsuccessful. Elsewhere two birds were at Yeadon Tarn in April and up to five there in May.
Elland Gravel Pits
held singles on 18th, 24th April, 9th May, and 24th June with five on
27th April and two on 2nd July. Another singleton was at Thornton Moor
Reservoir on 27th April and two birds at Chelker Reservoir on 21st May.
The last sighting for the year was one bird at Lindley Wood Reservoir
on 15th October.