A cold day at Old Moor and my first visit of the year, the feeders were my first call, to get into using the camera again, after a couple of months away from it, at the feeders were Blue Tit, Dunnock, Goldfinch, Great Tit, Greenfinch, Long-tailed Tit, Reed Bunting. Next call was down at the reedbed hide, where there was very little Gadwall, Little Grebe, Pochard, and Tufted Duck. At the Reedbed Hide I eventually caught up with a Stonechat and a distant Marsh Harrier The walk down to the Wader Scrape hide I came across Oystercatcher, Pied Wagtail, heard a Cettis’s Warbler, a Great Black-backed Gull flew over.
Viewing from the wader scrape hide I had great views of a pair of Peregrines, bathing, unfortunately at a distant
After Old Moor I nipped around to Wombwell Ings and saw the first winter White-fronted Goose (a first for the area = 142)
Birds Seen : Black-headed Gull, Blackbird, Blue Tit, Canada Goose, Carrion Crow, Cetti’s Warbler, |Common Gull, Coot, Cormorant, Dunnock, Gadwall, Goldeneye, Goldfinch, Goosander, Great Black-backed Gull, Great Tit, Greenfinch, Greylag Goose, Herring Gull, Lapwing, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Little Grebe, Long-tailed Tit, Magpie, Mallard, Marsh Harrier, Mute Swan, Oystercatcher, Peregrine, Pied Wagtail, Pochard, Redwing, Reed Bunting, Robin, Shoveler, Sparrowhawk, Stock Dove, Stonechat, Teal, Tufted Duck, White-fronted Goose, Wigeon, Woodpigeon (43)
Oystercatcher
Long-tailed Tit
Goldfinch
Great Tit
Robin
Tufted Duck
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