• Canada goose - min 50 adults and 21 goslings at Holden Wood, 22 at Ogden & 9 at Calf Hey
• mallard - 12 adults at Holden Wood, including a female with 6 ducklings, 1pr at Ogden & 4 male & a female with 8 ducklings at Calf Hey
• pheasant - calling birds at Holden Wood & Calf Hey
• grey heron - 1 over Holden Wood & 1 at Calf Hey
• great crested grebe - 1 at Calf Hey
• kestrel - 2 at Calf Hey
• moorhen - 1pr at Holden Wood
• oystercatcher - 6 to 8 birds present
• lapwing - c30 at Holden Wood plus 3 chicks & 2 at Ogden
• curlew - 2 at Holden Wood & 1 over Calf Hey
• common sandpiper - 2 at Holden Wood & 1 at Calf Hey
• black-headed gull - c30
• lesser black-backed gull - c12 over
• stock dove - 1 at Holden Wood
• woodpigeon - c25
• swift - 4
• green woodpecker - yaffling at Holden Wood & Calf Hey
• great spotted woodpecker - 1 at Calf Hey
• magpie - c 8
• jay 1 at Holden Vale & 1 at Calf Hey
• jackdaw - c40
• carrion crow - c40
• raven - 1 seen flying over the Scrubber carrying a small bird (meadow pipit?) in it's beak
• goldcrest - 6 at Calf Hey, including 5 singing birds
• blue tit - 4
• great tit - 5
• coal tit - 3 at Calf Hey
• sand martin - 5
• swallow - 4
• house martin - 2
• long-tailed tit - 1pr at Holden Wood & 1 pr carrying food at Calf Hey
• chiffchaff - 1 at Calf Hey
• willow warbler - 4 at Holden Wood, 1 at Ogden & 12 at Calf Hey
• blackcap - 1at Holden Vale, 1 at Holden Wood & 2 at Calf Hey
• nuthatch - 1 at Calf Hey
• wren - c20
• starling - min 10 at Holden Wood
• blackbird - 6 at Calf Hey
• song thrush - 1 at Calf Hey
• mistle thrush - 1 singing at Ogden & 1 singing at Calf Hey
• robin - 1 at Holden Wood & 8 at Calf Hey
• stonechat - 1 possibly 2 singing at Ogden
• wheatear - 2 males at Holden Wood
• dunnock - 3 at Calf Hey
• house sparrow - c10 near The Holden Arms
• grey wagtail - 1pr at Calf Hey
• pied wagtail - 5
• meadow pipit - c30, many carrying food
• chaffinch - c16
• greenfinch - 1 at Calf Hey
• goldfinch - c10
• siskin - birds calling up and down the valley in small numbers. 1 male singing from treetops at Calf Hey
• lesser redpoll - calling bird at Holden Wood
• reed bunting - 1pr & 4 singing males at Holden Wood, 2 singing at Calf Hey

cheers Kevin with David Nuttall at Holden Wood