Osprey in Cormorant roost on way back about 12.45 ........ could hae taken a good shot but battery was dead .......lucky i had my video on mobile hone or distance footage.....at first it did not fly but then it did slowwly got to the dam , greeted by local corvids en masse, then headed up the res.......moving slowly......did not really check to see if anything was in roost at beginning of visit..........it looked leisurely...appeared to head towards Ogden.......loooks like a very strong candidate for a stayer...looks like a juv...if not at holden wood then might be at ogden calf hey.......
Also
1000 plus meadow pipits
4 min Tree Pipits.......how do i know they were Tripits? Their call!
8 Whinchat! - 1 at holden wood at top end, 2 in ferns between holden wood and ogden, 5 in new plantation area of musbury
did not get a wryneck, red-backed shrike, barred warbler, pallas's grasshopper warbler ....but not at all disappointed with the day.
meadow pipits seen all over valley.........holden wood, musbury, moors above calf hey...
holden wood:-
10-13 teal 12 mallard min 40 lapwing approx 1 kingfisher near - first one seen here since 2005! a moorhen 1 chiffchaff and 1 other willow/chiff - at top end of res with mixed tit flock . a Grane patch first!
on musbury 2 wheatear on stonewalls - very confiding got close to them...must have been tired and migrants, another wheatear near quarry area
tree pipits in area of new plantation ..passing through...none on way back......
buzzard calling form alden side
3-4 kestrels seen
1 sparrowhaawk 1 peregrine
ogden:-
cormorants on water wheatear path....flew off...female....
calf hey :-
6-7 mallard on it 1 g c grebe buzzard on moor ...moved south
back to holden wood:-
no sign of whinchat in fern patch
but 1 spotted flycatcher in berry bush....seen once at calf hey before........
6 stonechat
1 lesser black juv on water 2 common sand 3 diff grey heron osprey
-- Edited by sarfraz on Friday 5th of September 2014 11:48:53 PM
Not much to add to that Sarfraz, but, I went up between 3-30pm & 6-30pm. In the felled plantation between Calf Hey & Ogden:-Whitethroat,10 Stonechat, 4 Whinchat, Dunnock, Wren, 2 Kestrels, various corvids, lots of Meadow Pipits grounded & flying through, 4 Grey Wagtails, up to 200 Black Headed Gulls on Calf Hey Res. Holden Wood Res:- 3 Cormorant, Grey Heron, 5 Teal, 10 Mallard, 4 Snipe, 5 Stonechat, 4 Robin, Willow Warbler, Moorhen, 25 Lapwing, but no Osprey!
Dave Ousey
I wonder if the Osprey roosted there previous few days or is even at Ogden? 4 whinchats? Must be 10 yesterday easily then at Grane....exceptional whinchat passage!
forgot to add about 60 swallows yesterday morning on the wire with many juv's not many seen later..i think they departed .....from Friday, 3 linnet, 1 juv goldfinch in musbury
went for a quick look today and on claf hey 6.30 - 7 nothing but meadow pipits, some ducks, no chats.....2 green woodpecker, 1 gs woodpecker
lots of b h gulls heading north
on holden wood.....around 20 meadow pipits, 8 pied wagtails heading south, approx. 15 cormorants to roost stayed till about 7.40pm ,,,,,approx. 20 mallards, 1 grey heron , a few linnet over, 4 kestrels ...2-3 were juv's also a bird flew north ..shaped like a possible g s woodpecker but lacked the bill in flight...
2 chiff/willow warblers near dam wall
1 common sandpiper
-- Edited by sarfraz on Saturday 6th of September 2014 10:20:39 PM
