The Breeding Season

As from now until the end of the breeding season birds of a sensitive nature will be omitted from this blog due to a small percentage of undesirables who take their pleasure from egg collecting, nest destroying and the killing and trapping of birds.
Reports of non breeding birds moving through the area will still be published. BS
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Dailie Fields, Queensbury

1 of 2 Green Woodpeckers
Entrance to the Dailies
Snipe country
Gorse bush area used by breeding Linnet


A mixture of sunshine and showers today with a strong wind but remaining mild.
A quick 15 minute dash down the Dailies on my way back to work paid off finding the habitat looking good and plenty of birds.
A suprise to see Linnet hanging around their regular breeding sight and a bit of a shock when I nearly stood on a Snipe. Green Woodpeckers were in full call and winter thrushes were in the Hawthorns. The recently planted Hawthorns have thickened up and will make a good secure habitat when the leaves are out.

By eck Howard, the hill seems a lot steeper to climb now than when we were 15 yr olds, we use to run up it in those days.

7 Linnet
2 Green Woodpeckers
4 Greenfinch
1 Snipe
1 Kestrel
11 Magpies
Sev Redwing and Fieldfare.
BS
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