Trystan
Well-known member
01/01/14
Another year, another list. Planning to put a bit more detail of events and locations into this years effort. As previously, lifers will be in capital letters.
Some truly miserable weather today took it's toll on the new year list which started from the garden before I set out to wintersett and pugneys CP as I have in the previous two years.
So:
From the garden
1. Magpie
2. Carrion crow
3. Robin
4. Coal tit
5. Dunnock
6. Fieldfare (quite a large flock of these with redwings at the end of the road over the last few week but only 2 fieldfare this morning)
7. Jackdaw
8. Blue tit
9. Nuthatch (regular in the garden since last winter)
10. Feral pigeon
11. Great tit
12. Wren
13. Mistle thrush (first time on the garden list, just one in the trees behind the garden)
On route to Wintersett/Anglers CP
14. Woodpigeon
15. Rook
Just after a village called Haigh I spotted a large number of fieldfare in a field so stopped to look for redwing. A nice little stop which added:
16. Buzzard (on a fence post)
17. Redwing
18. Blackbird
19. Starling
20. Brambling (just overhead quite high in a tree)
21. Kestrel
22. Collared dove (after setting of again on a house just a little further along)
23. Goldeneye (the most obvious duck on the water as I approached the site)
24. Pheasant
Anglers CP/Wintersett
(At the feeders)
25. Chaffinch
26. Greenfinch
27. Tree sparrow
28. Goldfinch
(Headed to the hide at Anglers first, light rain had set in)
29. Mute swan
30. Coot
31. Canada goose
32. Mallard
33. Little grebe
34. Cormorant
35. Black headed gull
36. Moorhen
37. Lapwing
38. Pochard
39. Tufted duck
40. Great crested grebe
41. Wigeon
42. Lesser black backed gull
43. Shoveler
44. Teal
45. Song thrush
(Nothing spectacular happening so I headed over the road to the ever boggy path around the boat house on wintersett)
46. Grey heron
47. Goosander
(Retreat to the car in worsening rain and had another look at the feeders)
48. Reed bunting
49. House sparrow (Just one amongst the tree sparrows, I can't recall seeing them together anywhere before)
A check on birdguides showed smew at pugneys and great northern diver at mirfield so I decided to aim for these two birds before the day was out. By the time I reached pugneys the rain was pretty heavy and I didn't know which side of the road the smew had been seen on. With no birders around to ask, I did a lap of the main lake and got soaked to the skin. For my effort I added:
50. Long tailed tit
51. Redshank
I forced myself to go scan the nearest lakes of calder wetland before giving up and returning via mirfield.
Sand Lane
52. Great northern diver (by far the most obvious bird on the water and a nice finish to a poor day)
Back in the garden
53. Great spotted woodpecker (Has been quite regular recently having been absent for a long time)
Another year, another list. Planning to put a bit more detail of events and locations into this years effort. As previously, lifers will be in capital letters.
Some truly miserable weather today took it's toll on the new year list which started from the garden before I set out to wintersett and pugneys CP as I have in the previous two years.
So:
From the garden
1. Magpie
2. Carrion crow
3. Robin
4. Coal tit
5. Dunnock
6. Fieldfare (quite a large flock of these with redwings at the end of the road over the last few week but only 2 fieldfare this morning)
7. Jackdaw
8. Blue tit
9. Nuthatch (regular in the garden since last winter)
10. Feral pigeon
11. Great tit
12. Wren
13. Mistle thrush (first time on the garden list, just one in the trees behind the garden)
On route to Wintersett/Anglers CP
14. Woodpigeon
15. Rook
Just after a village called Haigh I spotted a large number of fieldfare in a field so stopped to look for redwing. A nice little stop which added:
16. Buzzard (on a fence post)
17. Redwing
18. Blackbird
19. Starling
20. Brambling (just overhead quite high in a tree)
21. Kestrel
22. Collared dove (after setting of again on a house just a little further along)
23. Goldeneye (the most obvious duck on the water as I approached the site)
24. Pheasant
Anglers CP/Wintersett
(At the feeders)
25. Chaffinch
26. Greenfinch
27. Tree sparrow
28. Goldfinch
(Headed to the hide at Anglers first, light rain had set in)
29. Mute swan
30. Coot
31. Canada goose
32. Mallard
33. Little grebe
34. Cormorant
35. Black headed gull
36. Moorhen
37. Lapwing
38. Pochard
39. Tufted duck
40. Great crested grebe
41. Wigeon
42. Lesser black backed gull
43. Shoveler
44. Teal
45. Song thrush
(Nothing spectacular happening so I headed over the road to the ever boggy path around the boat house on wintersett)
46. Grey heron
47. Goosander
(Retreat to the car in worsening rain and had another look at the feeders)
48. Reed bunting
49. House sparrow (Just one amongst the tree sparrows, I can't recall seeing them together anywhere before)
A check on birdguides showed smew at pugneys and great northern diver at mirfield so I decided to aim for these two birds before the day was out. By the time I reached pugneys the rain was pretty heavy and I didn't know which side of the road the smew had been seen on. With no birders around to ask, I did a lap of the main lake and got soaked to the skin. For my effort I added:
50. Long tailed tit
51. Redshank
I forced myself to go scan the nearest lakes of calder wetland before giving up and returning via mirfield.
Sand Lane
52. Great northern diver (by far the most obvious bird on the water and a nice finish to a poor day)
Back in the garden
53. Great spotted woodpecker (Has been quite regular recently having been absent for a long time)
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