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sarfraz


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9.45am-1.15pm

 

Holden Wood:-

1 cormorant,

30-40 black headed gulls on water and I n fields

25 min mallard

1 wigeon

blue tits, great tits, chaffinches, robin

a few meadow pipit,  3-4  pied wagtail

1 grey wagtail

plenty of jackdaws

2 wren in rushes

 

On tops:-

150 meadow pipit min  moving  either south or south west  from a north and  north-easterly direction.  they were in loose flocks not very high but not flying on and on....they were not disturbed by me or flushed by me as some of the meadow pipits usually are....I guess they were migrants?

1 kestrel

1 buzzard above slopes of ogden

 

Fairy Glen :-  2 wren, robins,  blue tits, great tits,  chaffinches,

 

Calf Hey:-

30 min Mallards

a few black headed gulls

2 Great Crested Grebe

 

Ogden:-

 

abt 10 mallard,

plenty of meadow pipits on  slope

 

Holden Wood:-

3 stonechat - 2 males and a female....either moulting, or juveniles coming into adult plumage

1 jay

 



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Hi Sarfraz

Was at Calf Hey Thursday

saw Kestrel hunting at top end

5 bramblings on wire fencing at dam end

Pied Wagtail 3 on dam

20+ Mallards

2 Cormorants fishing

 

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Hi Craggy,

Bramblings? Are you sure possibly not Goldfinches, Chaffinches or even Stonechats?




Visited Grane again today from 1-3.30pm.

Holden Wood:-

8-9 Common Gulls in pasture - one squabbling with a B H Gull which would stoop at it but the former just opened its beak at it
30 min B H Gulls
18 Lapwings
1 Cormorant
2 juvenile Herring Gulls on the shorelines.....1st winters

6 Teal
15 min Mallard
5 min Pied Wagtail
1 Wren near wooden walkway
Kestrel near reservoir but may have been same one seen on slopes
20 min Linnet
1 Goldfinch min

Ogden:-
Mallards
1 GC Grebe
2 Cormorant

Calf Hey:-
3-4 [Pied Wagtails
6 min Mallard
6 min Goldfinch
6 min Stonechat incl 1-2 looking much younger than the others ie recent fledgings. 3 male Stonechats here - the ones seen at Holden Wood on Friday might belong to this family. They were in the felled plantation along with 2 Wrens and Meadow Pipits

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Hi Sarfraz

 

Looking at it again juvenile Stonechats is more likely of the three

scruffy looking and feather colours not very bright .

Its a good job that you lot are keeping a eye on me LOL

 

Cheers Craggy

 



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Hi Craggy,

We have all been there and I still often being corrected.

I have missed 2 sightings from my post 9-10 common gulls at holden wood

and 2 herring gulls both 1st cycles........an irregular visitor to holden wood


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Hi Sarfraz

Nice set of photos there Sarfraz

Cheers Craggy



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Thanks Craggy

Back out at Grane from 10am-12pm

Holden Wood:-

30-40Starlings knocking about
approx. 40 BH Gulls
15-20 Jackdaws, I heard a Rook too but did nt see,
plenty of Crows

1 Grey Wagtail

then 7 Redwing flying east from Musbury side to Troy Quarry side

then at least 40 more Redwings heading south

10-15 Linneon Holden wood shore line

1 Lapwing in field with B H Gulls

between 70-100 Meadow Pipits around Holden Wood and near by farm

2-3 Stonechat

Grey Heron in fields

a Rabbit on far side navigating its way along a small path under the rocks and trees after a cat! I don't think the cat so it until much later.

1 Pied Wagtail

at least 2 Reed Bunting

a Jay

Min 30 Mallards maybe a wigeon?


Ogden:-

Great tits in the trees along the old "railway" line

10 -20 local meadow pipits

20-30 moving south
6 Cormorants on bank

6-7 Mallards
1 G C Grebe

2 Kestrel





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also a large thrush flying west which I thought was a fieldfare

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