Saturday, January 01, 2011

New Year day 1

Busy garden and surrounds today. In the morning before my walk -
23 Goldfinch
13 Chaffinch
3 Lesser Redpoll
Mistle Thrush
Fieldfare
Great Spotted Woodpecker

Walk to Stoodley Pike, Warland res, Gaddings Dam and Lee Dam yielded....a Goldcrest at Lee Dam. Not even a Canada Goose or Mallard. Most of the water is still covered in ice.

Back home 2 Ravens flew over at 13:00, quite high, going NW. One was calling which is how I got onto them.
Later, a large flock of Redwings (74 at least) and Fieldfares (5) were in the fields behind the house accompanied by around 20 Starlings. Still there as I type this.

Good kick off for the year.

2 comments:

David Sutcliffe said...

That looks like a good start to the year Jeff

Matt Bell said...

I had a walk to Stoodley Pike too. Slim pickings bird wise, but did get one raven over lower rough head farm, and c.35 fieldfare and 15 redwings in the field next to the farm.