Park Lane at distance through the tree covered garden.
1430 hrs and on the way to Soil Hill I decided to call in at Park Lane to check the Brambling situation where Denise reported 9 present. The garden was alive with feeding birds and I soon started getting Brambling although photos were difficult as Park Lane is very dark under a canopy of mature trees and the birds were very mobile amongst the bushes and shrubs.
Present were at least 6 Brambling, 15 Goldfinch, several Chaffinch, Blue, Great and Coal Tits, Dunnocks, Robins, Blackbirds and at least 2 Redpoll.
By the time I,d finished here I was almost out of time at 1515 hrs so a quick dash to Soil Hill to drop 3 bags of Nyjer down in selected areas with just 1 male Reed Bunting and a few corvids showing and that was it. I,ve decided that Im not going back up Soil Hill again this year!
All in all an excellent year for my area, especially Ogden through the autumn which produced well on wildfowl and passerines making up for a great lack of warblers through the summer.
Highlights of the year are :-
Barn Owl
Long Eared Owl
Short Eared Owl
Osprey
Ringed Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Ruff
Turnstone
Whimbrel
Greenshank
Jack Snipe
Med gull
sev Yellow Legged Herring gulls
Shelduck
Wigeon
Teal
Gadwall
Mandarin
Pintail
Common Scoter
Yellow wagtail
Greenland Wheatear
Ring Necked Parakeet
Whinchat
Redstart
Black Redstart
Northern Treecreeper
Common Tern
+ many more species good for this area.
Common birds missed in my area this year :-
Red Kite
Nuthatch
Garden Warbler
Grasshopper Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Twite
Snow Bunting
Merlin
Hobby
Tree Pipit
Arctic Tern
Green Sandpiper
Little Egret
Pochard
Goshawk
any Harrier
Oh well... look out 2017 here we come again !!
HOPING 2017 BRINGS YOU HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
AS WELL AS GOOD BIRDING.
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM
WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING.
BRIAN.