Early AM

This area is now getting harder to view due to the hedges having not been cut for over a  year and I don't think they will get cut again due to cutbacks and will soon be breeding season so doubt they will be cut before next October.

2 Mute Swans

8 Teal

2 Shovelers

3 Cormorants

4 Oystercatchers having a territorial dispute.

Oystercatchers come back every year to this area but never had evidence of breeding but there could be a possibility of them nesting on nearby factory roofs otherwise why keep coming back year after year bit of a mystery really.

 

This AM
6 Shoveler
21 Teal
pr Mandarin
9 Tufted Duck
pr Oystercatchers back for spring never found out if they breed in this area but could do as they always return at this time of year
2 singing Reed Bunting on smelly pond marsh
No sign of Water Rails or Willow Tits as yet.

Jimmy

today 1 Kingfisher heard at Red Seas, 6 Teal, 1 Tufted Duck
between Red Seas and Crooke Bridge 2 Willow Tit, 2 Water Rail heard, 7 Bullfinch, Nuthatch, 6 Goldcrest, 44 Goldfinch

This AM
2 Mute Swan.
50+ Linnets
3 Goosanders.
9 Shovelers
1 Oystercatcher
27 Teal.
7 Tufted Duck.
2 Sparrowhawks

Jimmy


-- Edited by Jimmy Meadows on Sunday 16th of February 2014 11:55:59 AM

At least three Nuthatch today by the River Douglas among a roving tit flock

a pair of herons nestbuilding in crooke wood
at least 4 nuthatches calling only one seen
1 chiffchaff
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Tuesday 4th of February 2014 03:35:40 PM

This morning
42 Mallard
1 Grey Wagtail
pr Gadwall
9 Lapwings
pr Mute Swans
Green Woodpecker heard
10 Teal

Jimmy

50+black headed gull
1herring gull
2oystercatchers
5goosanders
5heron
30+teal
2shoveller
70woodpigeon

red seas today......9 goosander.......7 tuftys.......2 shoveller........30+teal........22 canada.........lots of moorhen,coot and woodpigeon

all the swans back today 6juve 2adult
also 12 goosander 10 tuftys 1 shoveller 2 heron and 34 teal

24th December:Green Woodpecker in flight near Lawns Wood/Otterscroft Wood, viewed from across the valley near Ackhurst Lane

-- Edited by dave broome on Monday 26th of December 2011 06:41:46 PM

Murky Morning for Webs
Highlights
1 Kingfisher
7 Mute Swans 2ad 4juv just in and 1 separate juv been here for a bit.

Cheers Jimmy

Tonight
2 Common Terns over
1 Sparrowhawk
6 Canada Geese
pr G C Grebe
3 Lapwings

Cheers Jimmy

3 female goosanders.2 jays.2 very vocal oystercatchers.running around each other with heads bowed.then they mated.

21-3-11
Crooke wood and surrounding area
Small wood near s bends farm
1 singing chiffchaff
2 treecreeper,2 gold finch,1 f reed bunting
M reed bunting on small pool in middle of field
3 gsw in crooke wood
Looks like the orica plant is getting ready for the houses
Lots of trees been cut Down

Flock of redwing in the small wood
Near the farm on s bends
Also goldfinch and nest building ltts.
Crooke wood 3 great spotted woodpeckers
Nuthatches,goldcrests in the tall conifers near robrite
Buzzards heard.

Webs this morning in rain
35 Teal
40 Mallard
10 Moorhen
8 Coot
2 Tufted Duck
1 Goosander f
2 Canada Geese

Jimmy

This PM
All frozen except river
These Birds on Douglas
30 Mallards
6 Moorhens
1 Little Grebe
pr Mute Swans
6 Teal
3 Tufted Duck

Also seen
50+ Fieldfare
60+ Redwing
1 Buzzard
1 m Sparrowhawk

Cheers Jimmy

This Morn
9 Lapwing
2 Redwing
1 Sparrowhawk
2 Cormorant
4 Shoveler
1 Little Grebe
10 Bullfinch

Cheers Jimmy

this morning, from Pemberton Colliery, 6 Buzzards were visible somewhere in the vicinity of Beech Hill/Crooke, circling in a column, before drifting in the Gathurst direction

3 House Martins
Mallard with 2 Ducklings ont canal
On Pond
pr Tufted Duck
pr Teal
pr G C Grebe
Mallard with 9 Ducklings
On Paddocks
Pr Lapwings
1 Whitethroat
1 Grey Heron over

Cheers Jimmy

Early Morning
Crooke Wood
1 Green Woodpecker
3 Chiffchaffs
3 GSW Drumming
3 Nuthatch
2 Coal Tits
3 Goldcrests ,1 singing at Crooke Hall Carpark
2 Pheasant
Long T Tit Nest Building
20+ Jackdaws 1 carrying sticks

Lawns Wood
1 Coal Tit
2 Mallard
1 Blackbird
2 Mallard
Pr Mistle Thrush

Cheers Jimmy

Had a walk along the canal from Martland Mill Bridge to Gathurst and back this morning and called in at Red Seas on the way.

Highlights: A single Pink-foot with the 12 Canada Geese at Red Seas, with two male Goosander and eight Tufties, a pair of Mute Swans, four Lapwing, one male Shoveler, five Teal, seven Moorhen, two Coot, eight Mallard and one Grey Heron.

Fourteen other Grey Herons seen near the heronry either feeding or flying over but only two birds seen actually at a nest. A Sparrowhawk flew over Crooke and a Buzzard was calling from the trees near Heinz.

Two Willow Tits were flitting through the woods near Crooke and it was good to see a flock of eight Long-tailed Tits had survived the cold winter.

This Morning
Crooke
6 Grey Herons
1 G S Woodpecker
2 Stock Dove
2 Coal Tits
25 Magpies
Nuthatches calling

Cheers Jimmy