3 Golden Plover-thanks for the info (Steve?) a jolly nice chap for a Yorkshireman
t'weren't me, Mark...
though I have adapted my grandad's favourite saying to " 'ear all, see all, tell yon Riggers" though I'm still sticking to "eat all, sup all, pay nowt"
Steve
Mark Rigby said
Mon Jul 11 12:31 AM, 2011
1915-2040
Oystercatcher Curlew Lapwing 3 Mallard 4 Common Sandpiper Wheatear 3 Golden Plover-thanks for the info (Steve?) a jolly nice chap for a Yorkshireman
Mark Rigby said
Thu Jul 7 11:05 PM, 2011
2030-2200
Lapwing with chicks Curlew Dunlin Common Sandpiper Snipe Oystercatcher Wheatear
Mark Rigby said
Wed Jul 6 3:27 PM, 2011
Hi Steve,
No sign of the Tufties since the evening of 21/7. A female and brood have appeared at Castleshaw and do the same thing-"now you see me, now you dont......" for days at a time.
Must just be sitting tight in the junctus between feeds.
Steve Suttill said
Wed Jul 6 3:11 PM, 2011
... or Brunclough as the British Waterways sign wrongly has it (shades of another Dove Stone or Dovestone/s controversy! )
an hour at lunchtime in between rain showers:
2 very noisy Oystercatchers 4 slightly less noisy Lapwing 2 rather quiet Common Sandpipers distant Curlew sounds
no Tufted Duck - has anyone else seen the brood?
Strange sight of a Wheatear "hanging" on the wind like a Buzzard!
Steve
Mark Rigby said
Fri Jul 1 6:38 PM, 2011
1630-1745
2 Common Sandpiper 5 Oystercatcher Inc 3 fast growing chicks 5 Lapwing Meadow Pipit Pied Wagtail
Mark Rigby said
Thu Jun 30 5:56 PM, 2011
Hey, get off my patch!
JSPALDING said
Thu Jun 30 11:25 AM, 2011
Wednesday evening 7 until 8-45pm no sign of hobby, just oystercatcher, common sandpiper and a few wheatear.
stuartherring said
Wed Jun 29 8:34 PM, 2011
JSPALDING said
Tue Jun 28 9:12 PM, 2011
Tuesday at 8-00 pm a hobby flew up the valley passing the reservoir scattering some meadow pipits and disappearing over the Pennine way, by 8-45pm it had not reappeared. Also a dunlin and oystercatchers there.
stuartherring said
Sun Jun 26 9:37 PM, 2011
was up last night but only saw 1 oystercatcher and 2 common sandpipers and mark had a hobby
-- Edited by stuartherring on Sunday 26th of June 2011 09:37:54 PM
Steve Suttill said
Sun Jun 26 8:17 PM, 2011
Thanks for the call Mark, but the Hobby's not passed over my garden yet. Are you sure you pointed it in the right direction?
Thick fog at noon
2 Oystercatcher
Lapwing
Curlew
2 Canada Geese
Today 8.30-9.30am - Bright sunshine - much more productive!
2 Wheatear
1 Redshank
5 Curlew
7 Lapwing
2 Oystercatcher
Snipe
5 Mallard
2 Canada Geese
2 Moorhen
10+ Meadow Pipit
2 Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
20 Starling
5 Reed Bunting
Skylark
2 Fieldfare west
4 Lesser Black-backed Gull west
2 Black-headed Gull
40+ Woodpigeon west inc. flock of 34
3 Stock Dove
2 Magpie
4 Jackdaw
20+ Carrion Crow
Raven
-- Edited by Steve W Johnson on Sunday 25th of March 2012 12:53:47 PM
Great weather for once!
2 Oystercatcher
3 Curlew
7 Lapwing
4 Mallard
4 Carrion Crow
8 Meadow Pipit
2 Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
4 Stock Dove
24 Starling
2 Reed Bunting (m,f)
Much as Mark plus
Redshank
2 Reed Bunting (females)
Today 4.15-4.30pm
Very windy
2 Tufted duck (m+f) on small pond by ruin
Moorhen
Curlew
10 Carrion Crow
2 Mallard
13 Lapwing
Moorhen
4 Curlew
2 Oystercatcher
Kestrel
5 Meadow Pipit
Stock Dove
Woodpigeon
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
2 Mallard
18 Lapwing on the car park shore.
1 pair of Mallard
13 Golden Plover (2,5,6) flyovers
3 Curlew
2 Oystercatcher
9 Lapwing
50+ Carrion crow
2 Raven - showed interest in sheep carcass but moved on
2 Mapgie
3 Stock Dove
2 Pied Wagtail
2 Mallard
2 Canada Goose
1 Moorhen
1 Dunnock
1 Reed Bunting (Male)
1 Mistle Thrush
20 Starling
5 Skylark
Could well be the most species seen in one visit by me!
3 Curlew
4 Lapwing
2 Oystercatcher
20 Starling
Magpie
25 Carrion Crow
Pied Wagtail
12 Carrion Crow
1 Black Headed Gull
3 stock dove over
c.100 pink-footed geese west at 2.45pm!
2 Tufted Duck
2 Rook
12 Goldfinch
2 Magpie
3 Starling
12 Mallard
c. 40 Goldfinch on thistles
Snipe
10 Carrion crow
3 Mapgie
2 Woodpigeon
1 Pied wagtail
5 Meadow pipit
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull west
Warm sunshine!
c. 35 Goldfinch feeding on thistles
15 Mallard
Moorhen
Snipe
50+ Meadow pipit mostly moving east
Magpie
2 Carrion crow
2 Tufted duck
21 Mallard
1 Wheatear
1 Grey Heron
10+ Swallow
4 Lesser Black-Backed Gull over west
3 Magpie
2 Meadow Pipit
1 Pied Wagtail
3 Tufted Duck
2 Mallard
3 Carrion Crow
Dunlin
3 Tufted Duck
6 Mallard
7 Meadow Pipit
4 Wheatear
7 Rook
-- Edited by Mark Rigby on Thursday 8th of September 2011 11:50:43 AM
19 mallard
2 tufted duck
1 stock dove over - being blown into Yorkshire, like it or not!
-- Edited by Matt Potter on Tuesday 6th of September 2011 08:06:19 AM
Who me?
nice to have somebody else covering the patch, but dont go gripping me off.....Karen Foulkes is already doing a good job of that!
Cheers
Riggers
Late news from yesterday, Sunday 4th Sep:
Jay over w
Sparrowhawk over w
(Both new for me at Brun Clough!)
6 teal over e
whinchat still present on posts at 6pm
4 wheatear
2 kestrel
tufted duck
moorhen
2 stock dove
30+ swallows
You were committed!
4 Wheatear
3 Magpie
6 Mallard
Moorhen (juv)
Small passage of Swallow.
1 Raven over
6 Wheatear
10 Mallard on res
6 Mallard on small pool (as per Riggers)
1 Tufted Duck on res
2 Cormorant
1 Kestrel
2 Whinchat (Ad+juv)
5 Wheatear
Teal
Kestrel
Dunnock
Coal Tit
6 Wheatear
How's the tree planting going?
Steve
57 birds on the reservoir consisting of
42 Canada Goose
10 Mallard
5 Tufted Duck
Also in the area
2 Kestrel
2 Moorhen
5 Wheatear
5 Tufted Duck and 2 Mallard on the reservoir.
6 Wheatear
5 Woodpigeon
2 Mallard
Not bad for an hours work
Wheatear
Moorhen with 2nd brood of 2 chicks.
5 Wheatear
Swift
Little Ringed Plover
2 Oystercatcher
Several Lapwing with young
2 Wheatear
Juv Grey Wagtail
2 Kestrel
Moorhen
Steve
...........................................................................................
So we've heard !
Roger.
t'weren't me, Mark...
though I have adapted my grandad's favourite saying to " 'ear all, see all, tell yon Riggers" though I'm still sticking to "eat all, sup all, pay nowt"
Steve
Oystercatcher
Curlew
Lapwing
3 Mallard
4 Common Sandpiper
Wheatear
3 Golden Plover-thanks for the info (Steve?) a jolly nice chap for a Yorkshireman
Lapwing with chicks
Curlew
Dunlin
Common Sandpiper
Snipe
Oystercatcher
Wheatear
No sign of the Tufties since the evening of 21/7. A female and brood have appeared at Castleshaw and do the same thing-"now you see me, now you dont......" for days at a time.
Must just be sitting tight in the junctus between feeds.
an hour at lunchtime in between rain showers:
2 very noisy Oystercatchers
4 slightly less noisy Lapwing
2 rather quiet Common Sandpipers
distant Curlew sounds
no Tufted Duck - has anyone else seen the brood?
Strange sight of a Wheatear "hanging" on the wind like a Buzzard!
Steve
2 Common Sandpiper
5 Oystercatcher Inc 3 fast growing chicks
5 Lapwing
Meadow Pipit
Pied Wagtail
-- Edited by stuartherring on Sunday 26th of June 2011 09:37:54 PM
Are you sure you pointed it in the right direction?
Steve