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Warth to Deeply Vale 220415
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Warth

  • Canada goose - 1 & 1 pr flying over the hillside
  • stock dove - 1 pr
  • pied wagtail - 1
  • mistle thrush - 1 singing
  • treecreeper - 1 (unusual here at this time of year, only ever seen them in autumn and winter before)
  • willow warbler - 3 singing
  • redpoll - 1pr

Hurdles Quarry to Waugh's Well

  • Canada goose - 1 pr below Brow Edge Quarry and 1pr flying over from Lowe Lodge
  • buzzard - 1 over Hurdles
  • kestrel - 1 hunting between Sand Beds and Plunge and 1 hunting on Cowpe Lowe
  • lapwing - 1 flying over Higher Lench Farm
  • stock dove - 4 at Hurdles
  • green woodpecker - 1 at Hurdles
  • swallow - 3
  • skylark - c20
  • meadow pipit - c30
  • pied wagtail - 8
  • wheatear - 37 mostly from Hurdles to Brow Edge Quarry.  At least 3 Greenland race birds present.
  • ring ouzel - 1 male at Hurdles Quarry and 1 male at Great Height's Quarry

Cheesden

  • buzzard - mobbed by a carrion crow
  • kestrel - 1
  • curlew - 1pr
  • pied wagtail - 1 singing
  • swallow - 1
  • wheatear - 1
  • raven - 2 over
  • carrion crow - birds flew off 2 different nests

Ashworth Moor Res

  • great crested grebe - 1
  • mallard - 3
  • goosander - 2 males and a female
  • oystercatcher - 1
  • little ringed plover - 1
  • lapwing - 3
  • kestrel - 1
  • lapwing - 3
  • lesser black backed gull - 20 (birds flying in and leaving all the time)
  • herring gull - 2
  • skylark - 6
  • swallow - 1
  • pied wagtail - 6
  • white wagtail - 1
  • grey wagtail - 1
  • meadow pipit - c20
  • wheatear - 1 male repeatedly attacking a pair of meadow pipits.  At one point it drove one of the meadow pipits into a patch of juncos with such ferocity that I thought the meadow pit wasn't going to emerge alive.  Never seen a wheatear behave like this towards another species before
  • raven - 1 pr over

Cheesden Bridge to Deeply Vale

  • grey heron - 1
  • Canada goose - 4
  • mallard - 10
  • sparrowhawk - 1 male mobbed by a carrion crow
  • lapwing - min 4
  • curlew - 2
  • moorhen - 4
  • pheasant - c6
  • skylark - c10
  • pied wagtail - 1
  • meadow pipit - c10
  • swallow - 4
  • stock dove - 1pr on the chimney
  • mistle thrush - 2
  • song thrush - 1
  • blackbird - c12
  • willow warbler - c20
  • chiffchaff - 2
  • long tailed tit - 1
  • greenfinch - 2
  • linnet - 1 heard
  • redpoll - 3 chasing each other
  • bullfinch - calling birds
  • reed bunting - 3

cheers Kevin



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Hi Kevin

so is the white wagtail and the pied wagtail two separate species ?

 

Cheers Craggy



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Hi Russ,

Our Pied Wagtail is a sub-species of the widespread continental White Wagtail.

Ours are prettier!!

Craig.



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 Thanks for the info Craig

 

Cheers Craggy

 



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