Sunday 2 December    2.30-4.30pm

Holden Wood:-

1 grey heron

house sparrow in hedges opp holden arms

5 snipe

Black-headed Gulls

1 Cormorant

3 mallard in flight heading north

2 mallard - pair

On tops :-

4-5 meadow pipits

wren

gull passage over north - over 20 mainly GBB's with some probably Herring

Ogden:-

11 mallard,

2-3 meadow pipit on sides

black-headed gulls

long-tailed tit flock in trees

Holden Wood :-

8 cormorants to roost

1 goosander drake which then flew up the res and possibly onwards

black-headed gulls in much lower numbers

singing wren

singing mistle thrush

singing robin

a few blackbirds and chaffinches, plenty of crows, some magpies,  2-3 woodpigeons

28 meadow pipits coming from easterly direction , flying over holden wood reservoir towards the farm

8 wrens seen all singles - at top end of holden wood, in rushes having left the reservoir behind you, one on tops, half way down the slope to calf hey, rushes between oogden and holden wood, one at point where holden wood widens, then one across in trees singing./.........the 8th may have been a double count!