202 UPPER NIDDERDALE AND ITS FAUNA. 



Night-jar. Caprimulgus europseus. A common summer visitant. 



Local names : ' night crow,' ' night hawk.' 

 Great Spotted Woodpecker. Dendrocopus major. A resident, 



breeding sparingly at Guyscliffe and Brimham. 

 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Dendrocopus minor. An uncommon 



resident. Several pairs nesting in the dale. 

 Green Woodpecker. Gecinus viridis. Resident and fairly common ; 



breeding in most of the woods. 

 Wryneck. Yunx torquilla. An uncommon summer visitant. One 



caught on the 3rd of May, 1886, at Fell Beck. 

 Kingfisher. Alcedo ispida. A resident in limited and decreasing 



numbers, nesting up to Lofthouse. 

 Cuckoo. Cuculus canorus. A common summer visitant. Storey 



has only found the eggs in the Meadow Pipit's nest. Observed 



as high as 1,150 feet above Angram. 

 White Owl. Strix flammea. A very uncommon resident, locally 



known as ' ullat.' 



Long-eared Owl. Asio otus. A not uncommon resident, locally 



known as the ' long-horned ullat.' 

 Short-eared Owl. Asio accipitrinus. A winter visitant Abundant 



in 1883-4. Local name : 4 short-horned ullat' 

 Tawny Owl. Syrnium aluco. A common resident, locally known 



as the ' wood ullat.' 

 Common Buzzard. Buteo vulgaris. Doubtless once common ; now 



seldom seen. One in the collection at Bewerley Hall was 



obtained in the dale several years ago, by Mr. T. E. Yorke. 

 Kough-legged Buzzard. Archibuteo lagopus. One trapped near 



Ramsgill, in the winter of 1883. 

 Sparrowhawk. Accipiter nisus. Common resident. 

 Peregrine Falcon. Falco peregrinus. A pair shot in the dale in 



1846, by Mr. Christopher Woodhead. 

 Merlin. Falco sesalon. A resident in limited numbers, nesting on 



the moorlands. 

 Kestrel. Tinnunculus alaudarius. A common resident. 

 Osprey. Pandion haliaetus. One shot by Mr. Thomas Joy, on 



Whernside, several years ago. 

 Cormorant. Phalacrocorax carbo. One shot at Middlesmoor, in 



the autumn of 1885. 

 Common Heron. Ardea cinerea. A resident, nests being noted 



every year in Ruddingsgill and other suitable places. There 



are small Heronries at Ripley Park and Bishop Thornton. 



Local name : 'heronsew.' 

 Wild Goose. Flocks noted every winter. Species not ascertained. 



Naturalist, 



