Spent quite a good bit of time on exercise this morning. A glorious sunny morning still with a 'bite' in the wind and in places very tricky with solid ice underfoot.
Cunnery Wood
1 Goldcrest with Blue, Great, Coal and L-t Tits, Wren, Dunnock, Robin.
20+ Redwing, 1 Song Thrush and 10+ Blackbirds - all scratching about in the leaf litter.
Beacon Hill
Green Woodpecker heard down the west facing woodland
1 Sparrowhawk and a Kestrel around the summit with 7 Herring Gulls and an adult Great Black-backed Gull >E
Goldcrest
4 comments:
Nifty little Goldcrest photo Dave.. They don't hang around.
I don't know that area Dave.. Somewhere up Southowram Bank?
John.
Hi John. Top car park at Shibden Park, (above the hall) walk across the road and through a metal gate. Cunnery Wood is on the left or carry straight up the path towards Beacon Hill.
Or for the beacon - top of Southowram Bank and walk a track leading back towards the beacon.
Thanks Dave.
I do know of it after all.
I have been birding through that gate (but not far!) Last year on a Shibden Park trip when the main car park was shut (TV programme) I think.
Plenty of woodland.
Good to go somewhere different for a change.
Nice photo Dave. Not easy with them flitting around.
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