Saturday, March 30, 2013

Local bits

A huge female peregrine was soaring low over the house today. At Eastwood sewage works, there was 36 pied wagtails, 3 grey wagtails and 11 meadow pipits, and 2 goldcrest. A green woodpecker was high above Burnt Acres (below Stoodley Pike). No wheatear yet sadly!

2 comments:

David Sutcliffe said...

Looks like that might be a good spot for alba alba wagtail in the next few weeks Matt

Matt Bell said...

I've had a few 'probable's' over the past few years, but never enough to clinche ID