MEGA Rarity in the form of a COOT! The last time I saw a Coot here could have been the 90's. Made me wonder what pushed it here and where from? Not exactly a Siberian Rubythroat I know but we have had more records of Little Egret than Coot at Grane in the last 3 years!
In hedge where I put food out - 1 goldcrest, 1 treecreeper, chaffinches, 4 species of tits, goldfinches, 2 GS Woodpeckers in trees, 1 Green woodpecker yaffled, robins, wrens
A bird flew out of the hedge/trees/scrub and first I thought it was a Kestrel as it was very russet coloured but it had a long beak - a Woodcock! They are quite beautifully coloured - it flew out and around the shore of the res then east over Grane Road and landed in the heather/plantation at opposite side
In the other hedge next to that old hide a flock of at least 50 redwings and 10 plus Blackbirds. 30 plus Woodpigeons feeding as well
On the other side at the farm 2 Curlew, 1 Oystercatcher, , 20 min B H Gulls, 20 min Jackdaws, 20 min Starling, Crows, woodpigeons, Canada geese all feeding......another surprise was a Moorhen in there too - not seen a Moorhen at Holden Wood for a few years.
Wrens at bottom end, near hedge, near rushed between holden and ogden
Pair Stonechat on iron fencing
1-2 Meadow Pipits
at end 2 teal
2 fieldfare flying up
pied wagtail
grey wagtail on stream
Ogden:-
Canada geese,
2 cormorants
3 lapwing
song thrush singing
Kestrel eating prey on hillside
wren on slopes
Calf Hey:-
2 golden eye
3-4 mallard
pied wagtail
kestrel male in felled plantation
pair stonechat on hill side - the pair at holden wood were no longer there on return journey
mistle thrush singing
wren on slopes
-- Edited by sarfraz on Wednesday 5th of March 2014 09:20:20 PM
