Thursday, August 23, 2007

Cold Edge/Fly Flatts etc




23/08/07 Cold Edge - 1 Moorhen, 4 Linnet and 2 Red Grouse.

Withens Gap - c30 Twite feeding on the landfill area between Withens Gap and Cold Edge, also 1 young Snipe there, 5 Wheatear and 40 Meadow Pipit and 35 Starling.

Fly Flatts - pair of Stonechat with at least 2 fledged young, 4 Twite at the feeding station and a Whitethroat in the gully below the Twite feeding area. Not a bad bird at 1,300 ft - and out in the open to digiscope!
3 Kestrel over the moor and 3 Curlew >NE, 60 Meadow Pipits and 3 Wheatears.

Castle Carr Road 10 Twite feeding on Ragwort along with several Goldfinch, also c8 Wheatears along the road to Wainstalls.

3 comments:

BSUMNER said...

Good photo Dave, thats got to be a site tick, was it on the moor towards Dean Head or straight down the track from the seed near the stream ?

darrell j prest said...

nice pics,good to see you tonight

darrell

David Sutcliffe said...

Certainly a site tick for me Brian. It was just down the track from the seed by the stream. A little fenced off area with a pair of rough looking Stonechats with 2 young there as well.

Hope you got all your shopping done Darrell - hardly recognised you without your bins!