02 | February | 2025 | Huddsbirder

A quick excursion down to RSPB Old Moor, seemed a shame to waste a bright sunny day, since we hadn’t had any for a while.

First port of call, as it always seems to be, is the Tree Sparrow Farm Feeders, it looked busy with people has I approached, I did however manage to get a reasonable slot to shoot from. There were empty feeders on the left side, all the action was on the right side, I am lead to believe the feeders are only get cleaned and filled on a Tuesday!! anyway the birds that were here were Pheasant, Woodpigeon, Stock Dove, Chaffinch, Bullfinch, Greenfinch, Blackbird, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Long tailed Tit, and Jay.

I then moved on and went down to the reedbed hide, didn’t see owt on the walk down there, but viewing from the hide, I saw Mute Swan, plenty of Coot, and Gadwall, a male Goldeneye, Mallard, a distant Buzzard. Leaving the hide, I noticed a small gathering of people had taken place, the Bearded Tits, had shown up, I tried taking a few shots but once again the wind beat me.

I ended the day by going down Green Lane, with my only reward being Teal, from the Wath Ings hide were Black headed Gull, Common Gull, Pochard, Shoveler, Grey Heron, Lapwing and Mallard.

Wader Scrape hide, I saw, Lesser Black backed Gull, Herring Gull, Common Gull, Black headed Gull, Marsh Harrier, Wigeon, Teal, Mallard, Gadwall, Little Grebe, and Peregrine.

My last port of call was the Tree Sparrow farm, where I spent some more time taking photos.

Video of the day can be seen HERE

Birds seen : Bearded Tit, Black headed Gull, Blue Tit, Bullfinch, Buzzard, Canada Goose, Chaffinch, Common Gull, Coot, Cormorant, Dunnock, Gadwall, Goldeneye, Great Tit, Greenfinch, Grey Heron, Herring Gull, Jay, Lapwing, Long tailed Tit, Magpie, Mallard, Mute Swan, Peregrine, Pochard, Reed Bunting, Robin, Shoveler, Stock Dove, Teal, Tufted Duck, Wigeon, Woodpigeon (33) now 105/200

2 birds added to the list today JAY and PEREGRINE