Common Tern 1 Common Sandpiper 2 Redshank 1 Oystercatcher 10 Linnet 15 Kestrel - a pair Buzzard 2 Swallow 8 Sand Martin 7 Gadwall 4
Simon Gough said
Thu Apr 16 12:59 PM, 2015
4 Garganey? Wow! Males or females or pairs? Not seen one before, so I will be making tracks to Rumworth if they are still about in the next couple of days
Keith Mills said
Wed Apr 15 6:04 PM, 2015
This pm up to 5.30. Weather fine. Grey Wagtail...1 Pied Wagtail...2 Meadow Pipits...2 Tufted Duck...12 Teal...2 Gadwall...4 Oystercatcher...8 minimum count Cormorant...5 Swallows...10 Dunnock...1 singing Common Sandpiper...3
-- Edited by keith mills on Thursday 16th of April 2015 02:56:38 PM
Ian McKerchar said
Wed Apr 15 1:10 PM, 2015
Today up to 12:20:
2 Wheatear White Wagtail 3 Common Sandpiper 80 Sand Martin 30 Swallow
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Ian McKerchar said
Tue Apr 14 9:18 PM, 2015
Further sightings from up to 12:30 today:
Little Ringed Plover House Martin White Wagtail Willow Warbler Two Mediterranean Gulls (adult and second summer)
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Steve Almond said
Tue Apr 14 4:28 PM, 2015
This morning 9.15 to 11.00:
Common Sandpiper 2 Sand Martin 50 Swallow 10 Linnet 8
plus usual
Steve Almond said
Mon Apr 13 4:16 PM, 2015
This morning:
2 Common Sandpiper
plus usual
Ian McKerchar said
Mon Apr 13 11:37 AM, 2015
Yesterday up to 1:20pm:
2 Common Sandpiper 3 Dunlin Curlew Snipe Adult Mediterranean Gull 30 Sand Martin 6 Swallow 2 Grey Partridge 4 Gadwall
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Steve Almond said
Thu Apr 9 1:48 PM, 2015
Walked round this morning:
Gadwall 10 Teal 14 Oystercatcher 10 Jay 1 Linnet 6 Grey Wagtail 1 Wheatear 1 Swallow 12 Sand Martin 2
Steve Almond said
Wed Apr 8 4:41 PM, 2015
This aft 3pm to 4.20
Common Scoter 1` Swallow 1 Sand Martin 3 Little ringed plover 1 Greylag goose 1
plus usual
Keith Mills said
Mon Apr 6 5:42 PM, 2015
This pm, sunny. Kestrel ...1 hunting by the footpath Grey Heron...2 Grey Partridge..a pair feeding while huddled up together. Grey Wagtail...1 Linnet ...4 Wren...1 Tufted Duck...6 Gadwall... a pair Oystercatcher...8 Pied Wagtail...2 Reed bunting...1 Lapwing... c30 Lesser Black-backed Gull...22 The farmer's brother saw 2 Swallows this afternoon. Late Post for 2/4/15 Cormorant...12 Gadwall...6 Teal...11 Reed Bunting...2
Ian McKerchar said
Fri Apr 3 2:16 PM, 2015
Up to and around 1:15pm today:
Single Common Tern present. Wheatear Two adult Mediterranean Gulls
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Keith Mills said
Wed Apr 1 1:48 PM, 2015
Around lunchtime today. Dam and Lock lane only. Very cold wind! Great Crested Grebe...2 Cormorant...1 Grey Partridge...2 again feeding only yards from me. Linnets...15 Meadow Pipit... c10 Pied Wagtail...1 Moorhen...1 Oystercatcher...2 Canada Goose...30 Lapwing...12 including 4 on territory Lesser Black-backed Gull...2 Starling...c100
Steve Almond said
Sat Mar 28 4:30 PM, 2015
Today:
Teal c30 Oystercatcher 10 Redshank 2 Common snipe 4 Gadwall 6 Little grebe 1 Dipper at outfall tunnel
Also, Thursday, Raven in field South of Lodge
Keith Mills said
Wed Mar 25 3:02 PM, 2015
Today... sunny Kestrel..1 seen perched by islands and later on fencepost eating it's kill. Grey Partridge... a pair were sitting out. Lapwing flock of c53 plus pairs on territory. Cormorant...11 Great Crested Grebe...c10 Grey Heron...2 Pied Wagtail...4 Gadwall...2 pairs Teal...c32 Tufted Duck...5 Oystercatcher...6 Common Snipe...4 Common Gull...1 Lesser Black-backed Gull...3 Reed Bunting...a pair Redshank...1 Good to meet a new face ''Rob'' who lives local to the lodge. He did not know of this Forum. He had seen both Redshank earlier.
-- Edited by keith mills on Wednesday 25th of March 2015 06:49:11 PM
This afternoon up to 2.45..fine Cormorants....14 Lesser Black-backed Gull...2 Common Gull....9 at least Great Crested Grebe...10 Oystercatcher...6 Teal...c15 Gadwall...4 Tufted Duck...1drake Shoveler...1 Drake Lapwing...c50 on islands + pairs in fields Linnet...1 Fieldfare...1 Mistle Thrush...2 Pied Wagtail...6 Sparrowhawk...1 a repeat cameo of my past post : the 2 Mistle Thrush seen standing on the CMB football pitch were attacked by the hawk this time it nearly got one, with some twisting and turning in the air.
-- Edited by keith mills on Saturday 21st of March 2015 03:10:43 PM
Ian McKerchar said
Fri Mar 20 5:24 PM, 2015
Some of today's sightings up to 11:59:
Sand Martin 2 Redshank Peregrine Raven 2 Shoveler
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Steve Almond said
Thu Mar 19 5:14 PM, 2015
This aft:
Redshank 1 Oystercatcher 8
plus usual
Keith Mills said
Wed Mar 18 5:04 PM, 2015
Up to 3 this pm. Fine and warm, but hazy. Cormorant...13 Great Crested Grebe...6 at least Grey Heron....2 Greylag Goose....1 Oystercatcher...3..(a lot of stuff away, on the fields that have already had the muck spreader) Tufted Duck....6 Teal....6 Gadwall....4 Common Gull...2 Mistle Thrush...2 Meadow Pipit....3 Pied Wagtail...1 Reed Bunting...1
Keith Mills said
Fri Mar 13 4:27 PM, 2015
This afternoon. Scoping from the top of the field near Beaumont road. Phil Rhodes and then Steve Almond also there. Fine but dull. Buzzard..1 Phil got 2 Kestrel...1 Cormorant...12 Oystercatcher...5 but scattered Teal....11 Gadwall...8 Common Gull...2 at least Lesser Black-backed Gull...2 Fieldfares...10+ with Starlings Lapwing scattered in fields...impossible to count Phil had a Goldeneye drake before I arrived which had left. The carcass I reported recently as a Grey heron turns out to be a Rhea! (Phil.) I also covered the dam and Lock lane but could only add 50 Fieldfare perched in trees and a pair of Greenfinch.
-- Edited by keith mills on Friday 13th of March 2015 08:30:45 PM
Wet dog walk this morning. Dam to Lock Lane. Great Crested Grebe...2 Moorhen...1 Herring Gull...2 leaving low over me. Mistle Thrush...2 over A nice cameo on the return leg: 15 Fieldfare and a Mistle Thrush, feeding in the centre of the CMB football pitch, were spooked by a late arriving Sparrowhawk, that skimmed across the pitch. Nothing else only usual stuff, although the lady who tops up the feeding table in the wood, told me she has seen a Treecreeper recently.
Ian McKerchar said
Sat Mar 7 10:29 PM, 2015
This afternoon:
13 Gadwall 1 Pochard
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Keith Mills said
Sat Mar 7 3:33 PM, 2015
Up to 3pm today. Fine warm and sunny. Lapwing...60+ Grey Partridge...2 Meadow Pipits...5 Oystercatcher...6 noisy arguments today. Cormorant...4... 0ne with a very white head and neck. Great Crested Grebe...6 at least Gadwall...3 Teal...2 Common Gull...4 Common Snipe...1 I left off my last post: House Sparrow..100+ In the hedges against the outer roads. 6 major hot spots including 1 at Tempest Court.
Ian McKerchar said
Fri Mar 6 12:10 PM, 2015
Sightings from this morning:
An adult Kittiwake flew in from the east at 10:39, bathed and the flew off high west at 10:44 Adult Mediterranean Gull 14 Common Gull 200 Black-headed Gull 3 Curlew 24 Lapwing 2 Snipe 6 Gadwall 8 Teal
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Keith Mills said
Thu Mar 5 3:37 PM, 2015
This afternoon walk with dog. Full circuit on roads and paths. Not much to report! Goldcrest...1 Pied Wagtail...2 Meadow Pipit...5 Grey Partridge...2 I have seen this pair before, sitting. One of the them is not coloured up in the face Presumably an immature which is puzzling. Cormorant... c18 including 1 at the dam. Medium size flocks of Jackdaw and Starling. Had a chat with Stan but he had nothing much to report. 3.41 miles according to my Runkeeper app.
Keith Mills said
Tue Mar 3 3:39 PM, 2015
Also today around mid-afternoon. Strong cold winds getting up, but sunny. Grey Wagtail...1 Song Thrush..1 Mistle Thrush...2 Pied Wagtail...1 Grey Partridge...2 Linnet...c14 Starlings...c100 Fieldfare...33 feeding separately. Cormorants...18 Common Gull...1
Steve Almond said
Tue Mar 3 11:42 AM, 2015
Walked round this morning:
Grey Heron - a courting pair Teal 15 Gadwall 2 pair Dunlin 1 on South island Oystercatcher 8 Linnet 8 Kestrel 1 Nuthatch 2
Ian McKerchar said
Sat Feb 28 11:37 PM, 2015
Two adult Mediterranean Gulls present mid-morning today.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Keith Mills said
Sat Feb 28 6:57 PM, 2015
Today scoping from the top by Beaumont Road, 3 to 4 pm Dull and windy. Not much on the water. Oystercatcher...6 Kestrel...1 shot past me and then tried to hunt the eastern fields in the wind. Gadwall...pair Cormorant....8 Great Crested Grebe...5 Common Gull....8 Starling...c150 this feeding flock in the distance by Tempest Court contained many Fieldfare. Lapwing ...now scattered in fields with some round the islands. Grey Heron carcass by my position .
This am: Dam to Lock lane only. Willow Tit...1 thanks Steve, 30 yards up the hedge from your spot. Showing well. Nuthatch...2 Song Thrush..1 Greenfinch...2 Great Crested Grebe...2 Common Gull...2 Oystercatcher...1 Lapwings ... settling in fields. A Barn Owl was found dead, last Wednesday, in Barn at Seddon Fold Farm (not there Monday) Info thanks to the Farmer Stan. I understand from Steve, that Judith Smith is collecting corpse today.
-- Edited by keith mills on Friday 27th of February 2015 04:56:23 PM
This afternoon, 1.30 to 2.20, additional sightings to this morning's report. At Dam and Lock Lane:
Goosander.... pair still in channel but swimming well apart. Kestrel...low over dam to tree perch carrying kill. Grey Heron...1 Grey Partridge...4 Sitting, in 2 pairs, feet from me. Meadow Pipits...9 Pied Wagtail ...8 White Wagtail..1 this must be a very early one.
-- Edited by keith mills on Friday 20th of February 2015 04:05:45 PM
Keith Mills said
Fri Feb 20 1:03 PM, 2015
Today 11.10 to 12.20...Fine with good visibility.
Buzzard...1 perched Oystercatcher...6 Gadwall...pair Teal..4 Cormorant...11 Great Crested Grebe...4 Grey Heron...1 Lapwing...100 Starling...c140 Fieldfare...46+ Canada Geese...2 Mediterranean Gull...2 adult on water (1 in full summer plumage) Common Gull ...4 at least Lesser Black-backed Gull...1
-- Edited by keith mills on Friday 20th of February 2015 04:03:20 PM
Ian McKerchar said
Thu Feb 19 9:41 PM, 2015
This morning 9 to 10am:
5 Curlew Pink-footed Goose 2 adult Mediterranean Gull 14 Common Gull Pair of Grey Partridge
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Ian McKerchar said
Wed Feb 18 10:58 AM, 2015
Ring-billed Gull flew off SW at 10:40.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Ian McKerchar said
Wed Feb 18 10:40 AM, 2015
Adult Ring-billed Gull present at 10:35; with gull flock by the north island. Please do not park along Beaumont Road.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Keith Mills said
Tue Feb 17 2:52 PM, 2015
Early this afternoon 12.30 to 2.30
Goosander... pair in channel, later possibly same pair, seen in middle of Lodge. Kingfisher...1 usual perch Oystercatcher...4 Cormorant..3 Tufted Duck...1 Gadwall...pair Teal...9 Lapwing...6 Great Crested Grebe...2 Grey Heron...1 Grey Partridge...3... now seen 3 times at this spot. Pied Wagtail...4 Song Thrush..1 Greenfinch...pair
Keith Mills said
Mon Feb 16 12:25 PM, 2015
This morning's dog return walk to Lock lane, via the Dam. Good to swap notes with Steve and Pete Lane.
Kingfisher...1 by dam. Kestrel...1 perched by dam and hunting by side of wood. Song Thrush...1 probably 2 Goldcrest...3 (London Buses) Mistle Thrush...2 Nuthatch...2 Great Tit...12+ Great Crested Grebe...2 Mallard..pair Coot...1
This afternoon 12 to 1.30..Trek down to main lodge from home. Weather fine with good visibility.
Oystercatcher....4 Goldcrest...1 about time Fieldfare...1 Mute Swan...1 begging off fishermen. Buzzard...3 ...1 perched, 2 soaring together. Grey Heron...1 Cormorant...1 Lapwing..12 Great Crested Grebe...2 Black -headed Gull.... 100+ Common Gull...3 at least Moorhen....1 Coots.....7 together and some aggressive noisy displaying going on between 2 or 3 pairs. Canada Geese ..25
No duck seen on my visit
-- Edited by keith mills on Saturday 14th of February 2015 02:33:24 PM
Car assisted this morning due to things on. Viewed from roads only. Fine but dull. Song Thrush...1 singing Linnets....c20 Grey Partridge...3 Greenfinch...1 Dunnock...1 singing Lapwing...160+ again most departing SW around 11.15am Cormorant...2 Great Crested Grebe...2 displaying Tufted Duck...pair Lesser Black-backed gull...1
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 11th of February 2015 01:03:31 PM
Steve Almond said
Mon Feb 9 12:04 PM, 2015
Two hours this morning:
Goosander 1 male Teal 12 Kestrel 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Buzzard 1 Oystercatcher 1 Nuthatch a pair Goldcrest 2 together
Keith Mills said
Sat Feb 7 2:46 PM, 2015
Few sightings to report up to 2.15 today. Sunny. Nothing much from the Dam. At Lock Lane a Sparrowhawk flew across towards the Lodge. Lapwing....... from Lock Lane a flock of c85 was seen leaving the Lodge and heading over Hunger Hill. .................. Later a flock of 23 circled the lodge, twice, before heading off in the same direction. At the Lodge, the ice show was nearly over, with the ice thin and patchy. Birds on the ice were c70 Gulls (mainly Black-headed with a few Lesser Black-backed), Mallards and Waterfowl. Teal...c25 scattered about on the edges, Just a few on the ice or in open water. Two Herring Gulls circled very high and passed onto Ladybridge later returning low over me.
-- Edited by keith mills on Saturday 7th of February 2015 02:51:42 PM
Common Tern 1
Common Sandpiper 2
Redshank 1
Oystercatcher 10
Linnet 15
Kestrel - a pair
Buzzard 2
Swallow 8
Sand Martin 7
Gadwall 4
Grey Wagtail...1
Pied Wagtail...2
Meadow Pipits...2
Tufted Duck...12
Teal...2
Gadwall...4
Oystercatcher...8 minimum count
Cormorant...5
Swallows...10
Dunnock...1 singing
Common Sandpiper...3
-- Edited by keith mills on Thursday 16th of April 2015 02:56:38 PM
2 Wheatear
White Wagtail
3 Common Sandpiper
80 Sand Martin
30 Swallow
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Little Ringed Plover
House Martin
White Wagtail
Willow Warbler
Two Mediterranean Gulls (adult and second summer)
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Common Sandpiper 2
Sand Martin 50
Swallow 10
Linnet 8
plus usual
2 Common Sandpiper
plus usual
2 Common Sandpiper
3 Dunlin
Curlew
Snipe
Adult Mediterranean Gull
30 Sand Martin
6 Swallow
2 Grey Partridge
4 Gadwall
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Gadwall 10
Teal 14
Oystercatcher 10
Jay 1
Linnet 6
Grey Wagtail 1
Wheatear 1
Swallow 12
Sand Martin 2
Common Scoter 1`
Swallow 1
Sand Martin 3
Little ringed plover 1
Greylag goose 1
plus usual
Kestrel ...1 hunting by the footpath
Grey Heron...2
Grey Partridge..a pair feeding while huddled up together.
Grey Wagtail...1
Linnet ...4
Wren...1
Tufted Duck...6
Gadwall... a pair
Oystercatcher...8
Pied Wagtail...2
Reed bunting...1
Lapwing... c30
Lesser Black-backed Gull...22
The farmer's brother saw 2 Swallows this afternoon.
Late Post for 2/4/15
Cormorant...12
Gadwall...6
Teal...11
Reed Bunting...2
Single Common Tern present.
Wheatear
Two adult Mediterranean Gulls
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Very cold wind!
Great Crested Grebe...2
Cormorant...1
Grey Partridge...2 again feeding only yards from me.
Linnets...15
Meadow Pipit... c10
Pied Wagtail...1
Moorhen...1
Oystercatcher...2
Canada Goose...30
Lapwing...12 including 4 on territory
Lesser Black-backed Gull...2
Starling...c100
Teal c30
Oystercatcher 10
Redshank 2
Common snipe 4
Gadwall 6
Little grebe 1
Dipper at outfall tunnel
Also, Thursday, Raven in field South of Lodge
Kestrel..1 seen perched by islands and later on fencepost eating it's kill.
Grey Partridge... a pair were sitting out.
Lapwing flock of c53 plus pairs on territory.
Cormorant...11
Great Crested Grebe...c10
Grey Heron...2
Pied Wagtail...4
Gadwall...2 pairs
Teal...c32
Tufted Duck...5
Oystercatcher...6
Common Snipe...4
Common Gull...1
Lesser Black-backed Gull...3
Reed Bunting...a pair
Redshank...1
Good to meet a new face ''Rob'' who lives local to the lodge. He did not know of this Forum.
He had seen both Redshank earlier.
-- Edited by keith mills on Wednesday 25th of March 2015 06:49:11 PM
Gadwall 10
Teal 32
Common snipe 3
Redshank 2
Oystercatcher 8
Buzzard 1
Kestrel 1
Sparrowhawk 1
Pheasant 1 male
Linnet 12
Meadow pipit 12
Wigeon 3
Common Snipe 4
Redshank 2
Linnet 9
plus usual
Cormorants....14
Lesser Black-backed Gull...2
Common Gull....9 at least
Great Crested Grebe...10
Oystercatcher...6
Teal...c15
Gadwall...4
Tufted Duck...1drake
Shoveler...1 Drake
Lapwing...c50 on islands + pairs in fields
Linnet...1
Fieldfare...1
Mistle Thrush...2
Pied Wagtail...6
Sparrowhawk...1 a repeat cameo of my past post : the 2 Mistle Thrush seen standing on the CMB football pitch
were attacked by the hawk this time it nearly got one, with some twisting and turning in the air.
-- Edited by keith mills on Saturday 21st of March 2015 03:10:43 PM
Sand Martin
2 Redshank
Peregrine
Raven
2 Shoveler
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Redshank 1
Oystercatcher 8
plus usual
Cormorant...13
Great Crested Grebe...6 at least
Grey Heron....2
Greylag Goose....1
Oystercatcher...3..(a lot of stuff away, on the fields that have already had the muck spreader)
Tufted Duck....6
Teal....6
Gadwall....4
Common Gull...2
Mistle Thrush...2
Meadow Pipit....3
Pied Wagtail...1
Reed Bunting...1
Phil Rhodes and then Steve Almond also there. Fine but dull.
Buzzard..1 Phil got 2
Kestrel...1
Cormorant...12
Oystercatcher...5 but scattered
Teal....11
Gadwall...8
Common Gull...2 at least
Lesser Black-backed Gull...2
Fieldfares...10+ with Starlings
Lapwing scattered in fields...impossible to count
Phil had a Goldeneye drake before I arrived which had left.
The carcass I reported recently as a Grey heron turns out to be a Rhea! (Phil.)
I also covered the dam and Lock lane but could only add 50 Fieldfare perched in trees and a pair
of Greenfinch.
-- Edited by keith mills on Friday 13th of March 2015 08:30:45 PM
Lapwing....30+
Gadwall....10
Teal....12
Oystercatcher...6
Cormorant...18... breeding patches showing
Grey Partridge...1
Reed Bunting...2
Mr Almond...1
-- Edited by keith mills on Tuesday 10th of March 2015 11:29:19 AM
Skylark
29 Meadow Pipit
14 Redwing
2 Fieldfare
Pair of Grey Partridge
Pair of Greylag Goose
Drake Goldeneye
8 Gadwall
10 Teal
19 Cormorant
4 Oystercatcher
38 Lapwing
8 Common Gull
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Great Crested Grebe...2
Moorhen...1
Herring Gull...2 leaving low over me.
Mistle Thrush...2 over
A nice cameo on the return leg: 15 Fieldfare and a Mistle Thrush, feeding in the centre of the CMB
football pitch, were spooked by a late arriving Sparrowhawk, that skimmed across the pitch.
Nothing else only usual stuff, although the lady who tops up the feeding table in the wood, told me she has seen
a Treecreeper recently.
13 Gadwall
1 Pochard
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Lapwing...60+
Grey Partridge...2
Meadow Pipits...5
Oystercatcher...6 noisy arguments today.
Cormorant...4... 0ne with a very white head and neck.
Great Crested Grebe...6 at least
Gadwall...3
Teal...2
Common Gull...4
Common Snipe...1
I left off my last post:
House Sparrow..100+ In the hedges against the outer roads. 6 major hot spots
including 1 at Tempest Court.
An adult Kittiwake flew in from the east at 10:39, bathed and the flew off high west at 10:44
Adult Mediterranean Gull
14 Common Gull
200 Black-headed Gull
3 Curlew
24 Lapwing
2 Snipe
6 Gadwall
8 Teal
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Not much to report!
Goldcrest...1
Pied Wagtail...2
Meadow Pipit...5
Grey Partridge...2 I have seen this pair before, sitting. One of the them is not coloured up in the face
Presumably an immature which is puzzling.
Cormorant... c18 including 1 at the dam.
Medium size flocks of Jackdaw and Starling.
Had a chat with Stan but he had nothing much to report.
3.41 miles according to my Runkeeper app.
Grey Wagtail...1
Song Thrush..1
Mistle Thrush...2
Pied Wagtail...1
Grey Partridge...2
Linnet...c14
Starlings...c100
Fieldfare...33 feeding separately.
Cormorants...18
Common Gull...1
Grey Heron - a courting pair
Teal 15
Gadwall 2 pair
Dunlin 1 on South island
Oystercatcher 8
Linnet 8
Kestrel 1
Nuthatch 2
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Dull and windy.
Not much on the water.
Oystercatcher...6
Kestrel...1 shot past me and then tried to hunt the eastern fields in the wind.
Gadwall...pair
Cormorant....8
Great Crested Grebe...5
Common Gull....8
Starling...c150 this feeding flock in the distance by Tempest Court contained many Fieldfare.
Lapwing ...now scattered in fields with some round the islands.
Grey Heron carcass by my position .
Greylag goose 1
Gadwall 2 pair
Teal 16
Curlew 3
Common Snipe 1
Lapwing 100
Sparrowhawk 1
Kestrel 1
Fieldfare 120
Willow Tit 1
Willow Tit...1 thanks Steve, 30 yards up the hedge from your spot. Showing well.
Nuthatch...2
Song Thrush..1
Greenfinch...2
Great Crested Grebe...2
Common Gull...2
Oystercatcher...1
Lapwings ... settling in fields.
A Barn Owl was found dead, last Wednesday, in Barn at Seddon Fold Farm (not there Monday)
Info thanks to the Farmer Stan. I understand from Steve, that Judith Smith is collecting corpse today.
-- Edited by keith mills on Friday 27th of February 2015 04:56:23 PM
Goosander 2 males
Teal 15
Gadwall 2 pairs
Oystercatcher 6
Lapwing 80
Kestrel 1
Sparrowhawk 2
Buzzard 3
Grey Partridge 2
Fieldfare 120
Redwing 2
Meadow Pipit 22
Nuthatch 1
Common Snipe 3
At Dam and Lock Lane:
Goosander.... pair still in channel but swimming well apart.
Kestrel...low over dam to tree perch carrying kill.
Grey Heron...1
Grey Partridge...4 Sitting, in 2 pairs, feet from me.
Meadow Pipits...9
Pied Wagtail ...8
White Wagtail..1 this must be a very early one.
-- Edited by keith mills on Friday 20th of February 2015 04:05:45 PM
Buzzard...1 perched
Oystercatcher...6
Gadwall...pair
Teal..4
Cormorant...11
Great Crested Grebe...4
Grey Heron...1
Lapwing...100
Starling...c140
Fieldfare...46+
Canada Geese...2
Mediterranean Gull...2 adult on water (1 in full summer plumage)
Common Gull ...4 at least
Lesser Black-backed Gull...1
-- Edited by keith mills on Friday 20th of February 2015 04:03:20 PM
5 Curlew
Pink-footed Goose
2 adult Mediterranean Gull
14 Common Gull
Pair of Grey Partridge
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Goosander... pair in channel, later possibly same pair, seen in middle of Lodge.
Kingfisher...1 usual perch
Oystercatcher...4
Cormorant..3
Tufted Duck...1
Gadwall...pair
Teal...9
Lapwing...6
Great Crested Grebe...2
Grey Heron...1
Grey Partridge...3... now seen 3 times at this spot.
Pied Wagtail...4
Song Thrush..1
Greenfinch...pair
Good to swap notes with Steve and Pete Lane.
Kingfisher...1 by dam.
Kestrel...1 perched by dam and hunting by side of wood.
Song Thrush...1 probably 2
Goldcrest...3 (London Buses)
Mistle Thrush...2
Nuthatch...2
Great Tit...12+
Great Crested Grebe...2
Mallard..pair
Coot...1
Goosander 1m 2f
Teal 20
Common Snipe 3
Oystercatcher 5
Lapwing 100+
Buzzard 1
Sparrowhawk 1
Kestrel 1
Nuthatch 2
Song Thrush 1
Redwing 50
Meadow Pipit 28
Pied Wagtail 12
Kingfisher 1 - thanks Keith
Weather fine with good visibility.
Oystercatcher....4
Goldcrest...1
Fieldfare...1
Mute Swan...1 begging off fishermen.
Buzzard...3 ...1 perched, 2 soaring together.
Grey Heron...1
Cormorant...1
Lapwing..12
Great Crested Grebe...2
Black -headed Gull.... 100+
Common Gull...3 at least
Moorhen....1
Coots.....7 together and some aggressive noisy displaying going on between 2 or 3 pairs.
Canada Geese ..25
No duck seen on my visit
-- Edited by keith mills on Saturday 14th of February 2015 02:33:24 PM
Mute swan 2
Shoveler 1 male
Gadwall pair
Goosander pair
Oystercatcher 4
Lapwing 150
Kestrel 1
Sparrowhawk 1
Fieldfare 40
Fine but dull.
Song Thrush...1 singing
Linnets....c20
Grey Partridge...3
Greenfinch...1
Dunnock...1 singing
Lapwing...160+ again most departing SW around 11.15am
Cormorant...2
Great Crested Grebe...2 displaying
Tufted Duck...pair
Lesser Black-backed gull...1
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 11th of February 2015 01:03:31 PM
Goosander 1 male
Teal 12
Kestrel 1
Sparrowhawk 1
Buzzard 1
Oystercatcher 1
Nuthatch a pair
Goldcrest 2 together
Nothing much from the Dam. At Lock Lane a Sparrowhawk flew across towards the Lodge.
Lapwing....... from Lock Lane a flock of c85 was seen leaving the Lodge and heading over Hunger Hill.
.................. Later a flock of 23 circled the lodge, twice, before heading off in the same direction.
At the Lodge, the ice show was nearly over, with the ice thin and patchy.
Birds on the ice were c70 Gulls (mainly Black-headed with a few Lesser Black-backed), Mallards
and Waterfowl.
Teal...c25 scattered about on the edges, Just a few on the ice or in open water.
Two Herring Gulls circled very high and passed onto Ladybridge
-- Edited by keith mills on Saturday 7th of February 2015 02:51:42 PM
On the ice:
Mute Swan 2
Teal 60
Lapwing 300
Oystercatcher 1
Elsewhere:
Grey partridge 5
Kestrel 1
Buzzard 1
Sparrowhawk 1
Goldcrest 1