Monday, November 05, 2007

Ogden/Fly Flats

Not a lot about today - lots of rain early afternoon and then a howling gale at Fly Flats.
Ogden - just a large group of Long-tailed Tits (c20) along with Coal, Blue and Great Tits, 6 Goldcrests, Treecreeper and Gt Spotted Woodpecker.

Also checked Soil Hill but if anything was there it was keeping down in the strong wind - just 1 Meadow Pipit there.

Fly Flats - 2 fem Goldeneye and a fem Merlin sheltering behind the embankment wall out of the wind. Unfortunatley it flushed and flew down into Luddenden Dean but nice to see. Merlins are special!

2 comments:

Daniel Branch said...

how did you get a mipit i spent half an hour up there but didnt get 1

David Sutcliffe said...

I think I flushed it from the long grass. Did not see it but heard it call. Well done with the Grey Wagtail the other day. They do pass through October and November and can and do turn up in unexpected places away from their normal habitat near streams.