Pages

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Queensbury Parish Church graveyard birds.

                                     The Parish Church
       The old overgrown graveyard, right  and new on the left.
                       Church Tower, 15minutes dinner break left.
                         Black Dyke Mills beyond the gravestones.

A dull, non descript day with a short lived sunrise then grey skies throughout with a slight thaw and calmer W>4.
A quick look around the Parish church graveyard this lunchtime on the way back to work found it livelier that expected , bit of an odd sentence that for a graveyard!
The newer part which is well kept up to held mainly BHGs and Woodpigeons along with 2 Robins and a single Dunnock but the old, well overgrown churchyard provided 5 Blackbirds, 2 Wrens, 1 Robin , 3 Dunnocks and a small mobile flock of 6 Goldfinch.
Jackdaws, Feral Pigeons and Starlings were on the clock tower.
Well worth keeping an eye on your local graveyards, especially in springtime as some of the rarest birds have been discovered in these habitats, not Queensbury yet, I hasten to add.

Several LBBgulls headed >S over the garage at 1630hrs very high. Could have been movers or just heading to a roost although gulls over Queensbury usually head >E for Eccup.
BS