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Sunday, March 6, 2011

West of Queensbury

Mixenden res from Hunter Hill
Signs of yesteryear Hunter Hill

Dull start brightening mid am. Cold SE>4

A good trek around the moor this morning found it to be quiet with very little sign of moorland birds returning yet, not a Curlew to be found. Searched for Dave and Jens Snow Bunting but no joy.

Fly Flatts
1f Goldeneye
4 Golden Plover
1 Reed Bunting
2 Skylark

Cold Edge Dams
34 Canadas
5 Greylag
6 Lapwing on shoreline
2 Common Gulls
1pr Tufted Duck

Hunter Hill
15 Common Gull >NE
2 Herring Gull >W
usual corvids

Mixenden Res
1 f Goldeneye
Mallards
100+ mixed small gulls, majority being Commons.

Cold Edge Rd walk from cattery to Withins and back
7 Skylark
4 Meadow Pipit
11 Golden Plover
1 Mistle Thrush singing
3 Common Gull.
BS
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