Sunday, December 30, 2007

Cromwell Bottom - 30/12/07

Spent 4 hours walking around there this morning.

7 cormorants on the ski jump
8 little grebe
3m2f goldeneye
2m2f tufted duck
4m1f goosander
1 grey heron
1m pochard
1 herring gull
large number of coots
100s of common and blackheaded gull

10 or so teal on the reedbed lake
3 jay
4 approx bullfinch
5 goldcrest
big flocks of long tailed tits - including a no tailed tit that didn't seem to have a problem keeping up with the flock
1 dipper on the river
1 great spotted woodpecker on the feeder just north of the car park
large numbers of great and blue tits on the feeders in the car park plus 3 robins and 1 greenfinch

nothing on the feeders on tag
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3 comments:

Goldon Gordon said...

Hi Ian
That's probably because I have not filled the feeders for three days. Down again in the morning with a sack full of grub to top up the feeders. Surprised there were no Siskin around ? The best time at CB is very early before the walkers, dog walkers or dickheads on motor bikes/with or without guns arrive around 11am onwards.Sue and I are usually long gone by 9/9.30am. We avoid the place altogether at weekends as it gets stressful tackling the great white hunters with pop gun air rifles

11:18 pm
Ian Scott said...

Hi Paul
There still appeared to be food in the feeders - the seed ones nearly full and the nut ones maybe a quarter full. We had one flock of probably siskins fly over the car park but I'd already packed the bins away by then so wouldn't like to be positive.

I must have been lucky so far - no motorbikes or guns.

12:04 am
Goldon Gordon said...

Hi Ian
Your were right hardly any food gone over three days. The feeders are usually empty after less than two days. I hope its the mild weather causing it and not the air rifle brigade. Sue and I saw very little this morning as it was still very gloomy at 8am and far too dark to see anything except right in front of you.

I avoid later in the day for walks at CB as at one time I had to go armed with a geologist hammer in my field bag for several months after being threatened. I tackled some blokes with terriers and spades about to dig out a fox and not having a mobile phone with me things got quite hairy for a time ! I was saved by some people walking past or I think it might have been me down the fox earth :-)) The blokes in question I found out later are Badger baiters, so risky to tangle with on your own.They threatened to kill me if they ever saw me around in Calderdale, so I took the hammer with me on every walk just in case. I now approach any idiots with mobile switched on and talking with the police which usually quietens them down before things turn nasty.

7:14 pm

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