brilliant morning frosty and ground solid, mist over the water
Holden wood:-
3-4 moorhens
3 coot
12 teal
1 snipe
1 jack snipe - flew landed a metre away, had a smaller bill than common snipe in fact I thought it may have been that water rail.....anyway can jacn snipe be identified just off bill size? it did not call
100 plus b h gulls
1 l bb gull
10 plus mallard
1 g c grebe
plenty of canadas
1 curlew
2 oystercatcher
min 6 lapwing
5 reed bunting
4-5 meadow pipits
singing wren dunnock song thrush mistle thrush
cormorants too but did not go near roost
Ogden:-
1 kestrel on slope
5-6 mallard on water
5 oystercatchers
1 song thrush in song
1stonechat alarming
2 meadow pipits - displaying weakly
Calf Hey:-
1 g c grebe
2 teal
HEARD a call of a REDSHANK- none seen but was definitely this species unless the grebe makes a similar call , none seen though
3 buzzard
4-5 redpolls zinging away
10 plus goldcrest
1 kestrel
1 mistle thrush
1 stonechat alarming
-- Edited by sarfraz on Wednesday 18th of March 2015 04:45:56 PM
1 Raven coming to a sheep carcass by the wall in the field before where the Lapwings breed - it was there at start must have been having a good feed because it did not hear me until I got very close and then it just scarpered although I had no idea it was there
1 snipe
no real changes except no teal
4 moorhen
Musden Head Moor:-
15 plus skylark singing
20 plus meadow pipits - many displaying some properly
