Oxenhope late p.m. visit. Low cloud and drizzle, SSE >5. Visibility just to far bank.
Poor conditions and once again confined to the hide to get out of the damp and biting wind.
The gull roost was back after nothing showed last weekend with gulls piling in from 1445hrs and still coming in smaller numbers as I left at 1630 hrs whilst DCB and CK stayed on till the end. Goldeneye were present and a small Goosander roost although this could have built up at last light. A covey of 38 Grey Partridge were on the road to the site on my way in.
Grey Partridge...............................38
Tufted Duck...................................1
Goosander......................................8
LBB Gull.........................................5
Common gull, BH gull..................c 2800 70 % being BH.
Goldeneye.....................................3
BS, CK, DCB.
2 comments:
A very good count of Grey Partridge, Bri - seem to be getting grey's rather than Red-legged at the moment, which is better anyway.
Thats right Dave, its a while since Ive seen a Red Legged. There used to be plenty around years ago when they bred them at Oxenhope for the sad men to shoot but that seems to have finished now.Whether Greys are bred now I dont know but tonights birds were very timid and wild.
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