I was a little bit stuck this time for my outing, due to the water levels and the floods, so I opted for North Cave Wetlands and hopefully share in the sightings of the reported Bramblings there.
I arrived on site at about 8:30am to a nice sunrise, so a dry day might be in favour. Got the gear together and set off down the East path towards the maize field feeders, but stopped off at the East Hide first, to very little excitement, Mute Swans, Teal and Mallards being of note. Carrying on then down to the feeders, and hopefully the target bird. On arrival I picked up straight away, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Tree Sparrow, Robin, Blackbird and Dunnock, no Brambling, so I waited, the feeders are near the road, so I thought that this may have sent the Bramblings elsewhere, but I needn’t have worried, ten minutes and the Bramblings showed up, and in good numbers too, a number I hadn’t seen for a long time.
After the spectacle of the Bramblings, I called in at the Turret Hide and hopefully a Bittern. The Bittern wasn’t to be today only Sheep, a Highland Cow, Dunnock and a Wren. So moving swiftly on and down towards the Reedbed and Far Lakes seeing Rooks, Crows, and Jackdaws for my trouble of negotiating the very muddy pathway, only birds seen down here from the hide were battling Coots. Moving on again and towards the Far Lake, I picked up on a Goldcrest moving along the nearby hedgerow, I stopped once again at the seat down here and the nearby feeders to enjoy Long tailed Tit, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Chaffinch and Greenfinch.
A small crowd had gathered half way down the path, I pulled up to and started to watch more Bramblings, it was enjoyable here as the birds were more in their natural habitat, rather than around feeders. Moving on again I stopped down at the corner, where you can look over Crossland Lake, here I found Lapwing and an Egyptian Goose. Carp Lake held a good number of wildfowl namely, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Shoveler, Wigeon and Teal. it was dinner time.
After dinner I decided on walking down Dryham Lane and towards the new workings, Cell 1a and Cell 2a. I found a few new bird species for the day along here, Pochard, Shelduck. Little Egret, Marsh Harrier ♀, Kestrel and Bullfinch.
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Bird List for the Day : Blackbird, Black headed Gull, Blue Tit, Brambling, Bullfinch, Canada Goose, Carrion Crow, Cetti’s Warbler, Chaffinch, Coal Tit, Common Gull, Coot, Dunnock, Egyptian Goose, Gadwall, Goldcrest, Goldfinch, Great Tit, Greenfinch, Greylag Goose, Kestrel, Lapwing, Linnet, Little Grebe, Long tailed Tit, Magpie, Mallard, Marsh Harrier, Moorhen, Mute Swan, Pheasant, Pochard, Robin, Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon, Rook, Shelduck, Shoveler, Teal, Tufted Duck, Wigeon, Woodpigeon, Wren (42)
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