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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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Thrushes on the move

More Common gull

House Sparrows on Nyger, taken through window.

A clear cold day with heavy frost this morning. Daylight noticeable lenghtening now.

A good thrush movement around midday today with 3 flocks of Fieldfare c40 c20 c80 high over the Dailie fields >N with a few smaller birds in with them, presumably Redwing , whilst 3 Mistle Thrush flew low over Foxhill park briefly stopping in trees then off also >N.
Also a customer rang in today to say he ,d had large flocks of Fieldfare and Redwing in his garden for the last couple of days which he says is unusual. He also told me of finding a dead Badger, road casualty victim, in the Harden area. There,s supposed to be a few Badgers at undisclosed sites in the Queensbury area but thats an animal Ive yet to see in the wild.
BS
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4 comments:

DJSutcliffe said...

You will have some fat little spodgers up there. I'm waiting for your Tree Sparrow posting!

Brian Sumner said...

Ive been waiting for my Tree Sparrow posting for 25 years but it has,nt happened yet. Im going to give it another couple of years till the housing market is better then move to Lee Mount!

DJSutcliffe said...

We only get them in Lee Mount every 37 years (in our experience)-there is a vacant house by us but you might be getting on a bit by 2048 (if my sums are right!!!)so better stay up there in the cloud at Queensbury.

Brian Sumner said...

Are you trying to tell me something!!