Thursday, March 22, 2012

Other news today

TM and SL
Brookfoot - 3 Mute Swan earlier today

Scammonden - Female Stonechat

GS - 4 Wheatear around Scammonden/Dean Head

BH (yesterday) 'several' Whooper Swans over Holmfield west at 06.10

AH - an amazing number of 52 Whooper Swans at Lower Gorple late this afternoon. I hope Andy got some photo's. I wonder if this is a record count of Whoopers for our area?

4 comments:

Bruce said...

There were 62 Whoopers over Holmfield a couple of years ago

Bruce said...

Actually it was March 25th 2007.
How time flies!
LINK
http://calderbirds.blogspot.co.uk/2007/03/whooper-swans.html

David Sutcliffe said...

Oh yes, forgot about them Bruce. Was it one Sunday morning? Great birds to see especially on our local patch.

Bruce said...

Yes David it was. Quite a wake up call!