Wheatley Valley

Shroggs Park this morning - 12 Redwings still feeding on holly berries around the football pitch and 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker.

Shroggs Road - former landfill site
80 + Siskins and 25 + Redpolls (also probably some Mealy Redpolls in among them but uncertain without a better view). All the birds were in the area just above the Dorlux Industrial Unit. There is access to the landfill site just past Dorlux into the tree belt area where there are lots of alders and birch full of seed cones. At one point they all flushed and formed a very large flock overhead, impossible to count but maybe a lot more than I have estimated above (?)

Also present were 2 Bullfinch, 4 Jays, and a Song Thrush in full song. I tramped across the grass area at the top of the tree belt - nice bog! which looks ideal for Snipe/Jack Snipe but none found. 12 Greenfinch near Brackenbed Road end of the old tip.