Wednesday Jan14th

Freezing fog this morning. Nyger seed feeder moved away from tree. It suffers squirrel damage when moved off tree.
Many blue/great tits, coal and willow visiting. Chaffinch, robin, blackbird, jay, magpie, pheasant, nuthatch, treecreeper, GSW (M & F), goldfinch (7), dunock. Long Tail tit in trees. Wren and siskin seen last Monday.

11th Jan

Car Park Feeder: Greenfinch, Reed Bunting, Blue/Great Tit, Robin

Feeding Station: Coal Tit (1), Nuthatch (1), Willow Tit (1), GS Woodpecker (1), Blackbird (4), Chaffinch (8), Reed Bunting (1m), Great/Blue Tit (30+), Goldfinch (2)

Flashes: Common Snipe (5), Stock Dove (4), Canada Goose (70+)

Woods: Bullfinch (1m)

Car Park Field: Redwing (23), Fieldfare (4), Meadow Pipit (1), Buzzard (1), Kestrel (1)

Monday Jan5th

Went down to top up the feeders. Thank you to all who are contributing this year, no food is provided by the trust so any help from visitors ensures that supplies are maintained.

At the feeding station, jay, nuthatch, chaffinch, dunock, robin, GSW, blackbird, pheasant, blue, great, coal and willow tit. A water rail ran through the back of the feeding station.

Walked up the road to the river and saw 2 buzzard, snipe, lapwing, bullfinch, gadwall, mallard, teal, widgeon, moorhen and all the little grebes which have moved from the frozen water in the reserves.

3rd Jan

All Pools Frozen

Feeding Station: Nuthatch, Coal Tit

Woods: Bullfinch (2), Siskin (8), GS Woodpecker (1m), Goldfinch (6), Jay (2)

Car Park Feeder: Reed Bunting (3)

2nd Jan

Feeding Station:
Nuthatch, Jay, Robin, Bullfinch, Redwing (P.Satch) (Photos by P.Satch)

29th Dec

Car Park Feeders:
Bullfinch (2) calling in the trees, Reed Bunting (1f)

Feeding Station:
Willow Tit (3), GS Woodpecker (1m), Pheasant (1m 2f), Goldfinch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Robin (4), Blackbird, Dunnock (2), Chaffinch, Reed Bunting (1m)

Main Pool:
Little Grebe (1), Bullfinch (1m 1f), Grey Heron

The Scrape:
Grey Heron

Woods
Treecreeper (2)

The Flashes:
Meadow Pipit (2), Canada Goose (12), Corvids

It's Christmas day ....

... And so I snuck off to Whitty for a couple of hours in the morning. It was quiet in the car park and the paths were very wet & muddy - we really need some hardcore for the paths. So I just went to the Feeder Hide and there were the usual suspects.


Robin
Great, Blue and Willow tits
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Reed bunting
Treecreeper
Pheasant
Dunnock
Great spotted woodpecker


and best of all a Nuthatch so it looks as though they are back after the loss of one of the pair last year. Unfortunately the light was really poor and even with the camera set to ISO800 I couldn't get a really sharp photo but I'll be back.

One good thing about the cool damp weather, there's some nice fungi around at the moment

21st Dec

Nuthatch at feeding station (per D.Hutton)

19th Dec

siskin and lesser redpoll at feeding station (per Midlandbirder)

Saturday 6th December

Feeding Station: Willow Tit (3), Coal tit (1), GS Woodpecker (1m 1f), Siskin (1m 1f), Goldfinch (8)

Woods: Bullfinch (2), Redwind/Fieldfare (c.15 over), Sparrowhawk (1 over)

Main Pool: frozen

The scrape: Shoveler (2m 1f), Mallard (2)

Nyger feeder (on route to river pool): Willow Tit (1), Goldfinch (3), Bullfinch (2)

Saturday 22nd November

Feeding Station: Coal Tit (1), Willow Tit (2), Goldfinch (5), Robin (3), GS Woodpecker (1 male), Siskin (2), Lesser Redpoll (1), Chaffinch (20+), Goldcrest (1), Green Woodpecker (1), Jay (1), Buzzard (2 over), Redwing (over head), Long tailed Tits, Blue/Great tit (numerous)

The Scrape: Shoveler (5 male 1 female), Little Grebe (1), Water Rail (calling), Bullfinch

Main Pool: Little Grebe (3), Tufted Duck, Bullfinch

River Pool: Siskin (2 along path), Kestrel, Bullfinch (2), Shoveler (2)

The Flashes: Canada Geese, Buzzard (1)

Coal Tit

Coal Tit (1), Willow tit at feeding station.

Hats off to the two Johns who have installed some very nice new feeders,now can we please have some sunshine.

(per N.Kiteley)

2nd November

Ross's Field: Curlew (2), Kestrel (1)

Feeding Station: GS Woodpecker (1f), Goldcrest (1), Willow Tit (2), Chaffinch (6), Jay (1), Treecreeper (2), Pheasant (1m 1f)

The Scrape: Teal (2m 1f)

Main Pool: Buzzard (1), Little Grebe (1), Tufted Duck (3), Kingfisher (1)

Also Goldfinch (4), Redwing (6), Fieldfare (2)