Birds
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Buzzard - Buteo buteo
Nightjar - Caprimulgus europaeus

Redpoll - Carduelis cabaret
Conifers, alders and birches are the favourite habitat of the Lesser Redpoll. Their diet is mainly seeds but sometimes supplemented by insects and their larvae.
Linnet - Carduelis cannabina

Greenfinch - Carduelis chloris
Greenfinch can have two to three broods a year, so the noisy young may be heard demanding food throughout the summer.
Common Redpoll - Carduelis flammea

Siskin - Carduelis spinus
These birds may be seen flitting through the conifers feeding from the pine cones. The nest is made from small lichen covered twigs bound with grass, moss and some plant fibres and wool. It is lined with hair and thistledown, and three to five pale blue speckled eggs are laid in it in April or May. It takes two weeks for the eggs to hatch and the male feeds them for the first week then the female helps until they fledge a further week later.
Treecreeper - Certhia familiaris
Black-headed Gull - Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Dipper - Cinclus cinclus
These birds are shy but have been seen along Risedale Beck and at the weir.
Hen Harrier - Circus cyaneus
Hawfinch - Coccothraustes coccothraustes
Stock Dove - Columba oenas
Wood Pigeon - Columba palumbus
Common Raven - Corvus corax
Carrion Crow - Corvus corone
Rook - Corvus frugilegus
Jackdaw - Corvus monedula
Cuckoo - Cuculus canorus

Blue Tit - Cyanistes caeruleus
Blue Tits frequently use the nest boxes around the reserve. They can also be seen feeding from most of the feeders.