Friday 9.30am-12.30pm Looks like numbers of different species building up.
Holden Wood:-
approx. 8 Mallard
101 Canada Geese
13 Cormorants in roost - max count at any one time
1 Oystercatcher
2 Curlew
45 Lapwing - max count at any one time
1 Grey Wagtail
1 Pied Wagtail
1 Grey Heron
60 min B H Gulls incl 2-3 Common Gulls on the water
3 Herring Gull immatures south
1 Kestrel - male
ON my little feeding station - 2 Blue Tits, a Great Tit - I put more food out and suddenly the sound of L T, Blue and Great Tits, Chaffinches and a Goldcrest. A Great Spotted Woodpecker - male - flew over too.
5 Goldfinch over
0 Meadow Pipits, Snipe and Stonechat
Robin, Dunnock, Wren in song
Treecreeper heard from opposite side
400 Starlings min - some headed to Ogden
flock of Fieldfare min 50 easily
Ogden:-
3 G B B Gulls - 2 adults and an immature following the Cormorants around,
100 min B H GUlls with a 1st winter L BB Gull
Musbury:-
at least 10 lapwing up there
1 Skylark in song
-- Edited by sarfraz on Friday 21st of February 2014 09:32:03 PM
Not sure if they are always good to hear - I had 40 of them in Bowland once and they really cause a din! Saying that I was glad to hear this particular one.
