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Colin Ramsden


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Mute Swans have shooed off six cygnets one left. Perhaps it can't fly.
Goosander - 3 pairs. Actively feeding - and one pair snoozing.
Tufted Duck - Mx3 Fx2
Mallards c 25
C Geese c 60
Coot - nest under construction for a few weeks.


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Colin Ramsden


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Lake 3/4 iced over.
Pair of Mute Swans still have all seven juveniles from last year in tow.
Still c 30 coots.
Canada Geese c 45
Tufted Duck F x 1

Dipper singing sweetly on the Roch at the back of the lake.

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Colin Ramsden


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Blackbird singing lustily mid-afternoon and into the twilight.
Herons repairing nests.
c 30 Coot on the lake.


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Colin Ramsden


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Kingfisher x 1 feeding on the lake.
Buzzard overhead again.

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Mute Swans still with full compliment of 7 well grown cygnets.
Buzzard over Crimble.

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Mute Swans with 7 well grown cygnets.
Coots with solitary 'punk' juvenile - quite a few pairs and nests but not much evidence of success.
Canada Geese x 67 - no juveniles.

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15th October.

Mid-morning.

A drake Wigeon and a Little Grebe on the lake and a flock of 16 Goldfinch in the surrounding woodland.

Cheers,

Bill.

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28th March.

Came to count the heronry and was astonished and a bit distracted to see a Swallow hawking over the water surrounding the heronry!! jawdrop.gif I later visited Rhodes Lodge, Rhodes, Middleton on the way home and another 4 Swallows were there! Am I the only person to turn up Swallows today - people will think I'm making it up!! hmm.gif I haven't even managed to see a Sand Martin yet this year!

Also Green Woodpecker, 5 Mistle Thrush, 5 Jays together and 6 herons nests.

Cheers,

Bill.

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7th April p.m.

A mixed flock of c40 hirundines flocking about a airborne Sparrowhawk - approx nos - 20 Sand Martins, 15 Swallows & 5 House Martins.

Plus 2 Sparrowhawks, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail, Grey Herons, 2 Mute Swan, 2 Goosanders & 4 Tufted Duck.

Cheers,

Bill.

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