Holden Wood : - 6 cormorants in trees, 5 teal, 1 grey heron, 7-8 mallard, 1 kestrel, 80 plus woodpigeons moving west-north west, 1 common gull, chiffchaff with tits in ferns between Ogden and Holden wood,
Usual suspects
Ogden:- 6 cormorants. 50 lapwings, 5-6 mallard
Calf Hey:-
1 g c grebe
3 herring gull immatures
10 min mallard
Forest alive with small birds easily 30 Goldcrest's seen today if not even a 100 with 3 commonest tit species. 1 green woodpecker, 1 g s woodpecker
1 jay
Ogden:-
1 g b b gull
Holden Wood:-
Met Paul and Jim and had had a good chat with great bird entertainment. 3 buzzard's in air together - 1 shot across to Musbury side but there were 3 again likely a 4th appeared,
6 Fieldfare
1 kestrel
1 hobby most likely a juv
3 buzzard's joined by entourage of Corvids including 2 Ravens.
-- Edited by sarfraz on Friday 10th of October 2014 09:19:52 PM
Literally minutes after you left, we witnessed a kestrel carrying prey that climbed in the sky and let go of what it was carrying 3 times and then swooped to catch it mid-air again. I've never witnessed this behaviour before. It only stopped because it got mobbed by the crows and magpies that had been hassling the buzzards.
