10 black headed gulls about 2.30pm, but 30 plus at about 6pm
4 cormorants on way back at 6pm ...resting on shore line
some meadow pipits near farm
pied wagtails
linnet, goldfinches
Ogden
3 Raven soaring above my head for 10 minutes cronking, flipping over, diving- a pair which headed towards Hutch Bank and the 3rd must have gone westwards, south or even north but not east...
meadow pipits on slope
3 stonechat in bracken between ogden and holden wood......male and 2 juvs i think
oystercatcher heard
cormorant on res but flew off....might have joined the others at holden wood tomake it no4
pied wagtails
Calf Hey
black headed gulls
1 female mallard - the only mallard seen today
2 oystercatchers
in the felled plantation between ogden and calf hey there was a whitethroat in branches which were cut and bundled on the floor, along with a wren, a male stone chat and maye a female nearby, also a finch of some sort.....which i cant make id of...there were also a pair of grey wagtail, and pied wagtails in the channel
Fairy Glen
a roving flock of great tits, coal tits, blue tits with some tree creepers and redpoll, appeared to be a family party of wrens with juveniles begging for good, a blackbird, also a singing willow warbler
also the usual carrion crows, magpies, woodpigeons - in good numbers, swallows, house and some sand martins, not many swifts
How many records of Whitethroat have we had from Grane? could this be passing through? It looked liek it was either a juvenile or in moult.
-- Edited by sarfraz on Thursday 9th of August 2012 10:41:47 PM
