Philip Walker visited on Friday 23rd. In addition to John's post/sightings Philip also saw a few bits up at the Borrow Pit pool. There was four Little Grebes, six to eight Tufted Duck, a Peregrine flying over up the valley and a male Stonechat perched on the bullrushes.
On Saturday 24th Steve had a Little Grebe at the reservoir along with the now regular Stonechat and pair of Wigeon.
Dave Lowe and Tom Bedford travelled up on Sunday 25th in search of the Willow Tit, which they found, and also saw our first Marsh Tit of the year/winter. The two were associating with each other and could be our 'pair' that attempted to nest last year. Their visit produced some interesting comments on ID from Richard Broughton and Tom has written up their notes and Richards comments here.
Monday lunch time John had four Redpolls in the woodland. The (a) Coot has returned, two Lapwing flew over and the very confiding Kestrel was around too.
The cold snap appears to be causing a little movement of birds avoiding the harsher conditions elsewhere. Today before work John saw 31 Lapwing go over and there were 10 Tufted Ducks (7 drakes) at the reservoir and 15 Fieldfare in the cattle field. At lunch time he saw a further 29 go over, all south or south-east, and another 4 land at the reservoir in the evening.
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