Baby elephant pub to iron bridge over dougie. kingfisher fly past nr pub grey heron willow warbler buzzard jay family of long tailea tits swifts + house martins over moorhen with chicks on dougy
Grasshopper warbler on the dougie Close to the weir. Also Grey wagtail showing well on the weir rocks Grey wagtail on Gathurst locks Gold finch feeding young near the railway bridge And Kingfisher flew past near the Baby elephant pub.
Walk from Crooke to Gathurst Sightings included 3pr Lapwings 1pr Oystercatchers 4 Stock doves 1 Willow Tit nr Navigation on canal 1m Mandarin Swallows Chiffchaff Willow Warblers Blackcaps 2pr Pheasants 4 Water Rails Calling
1 Buzzard 4 Chiffchaff 1 Sparrowhawk 3 G S woodpeckers 2 Nuthatch 1 kingfisher 66 B h Gulls 1 Med Gull briefly never had one of these here before 127 Mallard 1 cormorant 4 Grey Heron and lots of water
green woodpecker calling 2 oystercatchers 2 lapwings 5 water rail calling reed bunting willow warblers and some idiot with an air rifle who was frightened off by the cattle which came looking at his dog
sightings while doing a survey today around crooke 2 buzzards 3 nuthatch 2 g s woodpeckers 2 coal tits 3 cormorants flew over and 7 goosanders flew up the river douglas and finished off with a fox walking along the field back of gathurst station jimmy
