Monday, April 11, 2011

Holmfield and Mixenden

I had a ride round for a short time early afternoon during the rain, checking on local rookeries - big surprise was 20 nests near Laurel Bank Close in Holmfield in 2009 - none there today! Mixenden Res'r early afternoon - c30 Swallows there but nothing else.
Posted by at

2 comments:

Jeff Cox said...

Could you see any new developments up there Dave? Anything obvious that may help to explain why there are no nests?

8:04 pm
David Sutcliffe said...

I have just amended the posting Jeff - Holmfield near the schools for the Rookery as I didn't make that clear. No obvious explanation but I will look into it a bit further.

I have done some random checks of some of our rookeries this year (next full one is 2014) and found that those I have done are marginally up from our 2009 survey. Surprising after such a tough winter for the birds! But I got a real shock up there this afternoon.

9:17 pm

Post a Comment