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Farnley Reservoir: Located two to three miles from Leeds City Centre, this reservoir is a small wildlife haven in a built up area. It attracts many species of exciting and unusual birds, and other species as well. At the time of writing this there is at least one pair of resident Gadwall, Canada Geese, Black-headed Gulls, Mute swans, Coots, Moorhen and Mallards. There a lot of birds to see especially in the winter months, when over wintering water fowl comes into the UK. Ring-necked Parakeet have been seen here, as well as Mandarin Ducks,  Ebird will give you a good idea as to what birds have been seen around the Reservoir.

Although called a reservoir, it's not a reservoir, but in fact an overspill pool for Farnley Beck, a small stream that would otherwise flood some of the Wortley area, Sometimes called balancing pools, the reservoir was built in 1973, and is about eight hectares in surface area, in a mile in circumference. This pool has a water capacity of 300,000 cubic metres. Many a commercial company, and some residents have been saved from flooding by the construction of this dam. However with some of the down pours we get since global warming, means the dam isn't always effective as it was.