Friday, March 23, 2012

Cold Edge


Pink-footed Goose with Canadas

Common Shrew

An interesting afternoon at Cold Edge with mammals to the fore!
1 Common Shrew (I think!) running about in some tractor tracks at Moorlands Farm. Also nearby 1 Weasel and a Brown Hare.

Birds were interesting too
1 Little Grebe on the small pond
1 Pink-footed Goose with 80+ Canada's and 4 Greylag Geese
6 Goosander
1 f Goldeneye
1 Little Owl
c30 Meadow Pipits
2 Pied Wagtails
2 Skylark
c20 Lapwings
c6 Curlew
2 Golden Plover
2 Kestrel
c5 Reed Buntings
No LRP's - no mud!!!
No Wheatears found up at Cold Edge yet although 4 have been seen nearby along Cold Edge Road this week.

2 comments:

Andrew Huyton said...

Interesting you should say mammals to the fore, Jeff and I went up Ogden this afternoon and had Weasel (showing really well but out of photo range), Mink and 2 Hare's.

Brian Sumner . said...

A cracking day all round for you today Dave, well done on a good report.