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BRIAN SUMNER.
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No sightings of Roe Deer, Fox, Hare or Badger will be mentioned on this blog throughout the year and links will be removed from other blogs giving the whereabouts of these mammals due to the rising influx of poaching, long dogging and lamping by sick individuals.
BS




Sunday, May 31, 2015

So whats one more soaking! Cold Edge Dams /Mixenden.

                        Distant Little Grebe on Spring Dam, Cold Edge
                                   Canada family, Haigh Cote Dam, Cold Edge
    Haigh Cote Dam alive with Swifts
                62 Canadas by mill dam, no Pinkie
                1 Pr sheltering Tufted, Leadbeater Dam, Cold Edge
                       1 male Tufted, same area

Arrived at Cold Edge Dams  1500 hrs just in time for a heavy shower and a strong W>6 gusting near gale 7.
A good flock of 62 Canadas in the field by the mill dam but no sign of the Pinkie.
A walk up the lane found the Little Grebe diving on the Spring Dam but no sign of DJSs Stonechat in the area.
Plenty Reed Buntings and Meadow Pipits around but quiet in the sky.
Haigh Cote dam held a family of Canadas and a few Mallard whilst around 50 Swifts were feeding over the water.
A very wind blown Leadbeater dam had a few Mallards all under the edges out of the wind whilst 1 pr Tufted and a single male kept in the shelter of the west bank.
Several Goldfinch about and a couple of Dunnocks and that was about it.

A quick scan of Mixenden on the way back just found Mallards, again sheltering under the edges, with plenty Swallows skimming the water.
No sign of the Tufted or Gt Crested Grebe here.

Well thats May gone and now we,ve a quiet month ahead, no change there then, waiting for the early returners although June can produce a rarity or two.
BS