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  1. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    I always reckon to hear coal tits before seeing them, or even only to hear them, which makes the omission that much more surprising. I've not been to the Sling Pool much but in my world that's a different site (although once I used to count Grimley up beyond Holt Fleet!)
  2. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    One female goldeneye late this afternoon and the great crested grebes up to four. More amazement followed the discovery that a coal tit was my first record for the site. You'd think it'd come in earlier than #113.
  3. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    All three goldeneyes still present at CLP this morning, along with two great crested grebes. All the lapwings spooked at one stage and this time I could pick out a peregrine powering over. Amazing for that to be my first record for the site in over twenty years; even merlin beat it on to the...
  4. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    The Egyptian goose was in with a huge Canada flock in the field to the east of Camp Lane itself. A pair of stonechats then seemed quite oblivious to me on my way back to the village. I'd started the circuit from the end of Waggon Wheel down the Severn and near the canal had been two male and two...
  5. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    Monkwood isn't really here but it's close and I didn't want to start another thread. Last month I defintiely had a couple of bramblings in with the siskin flock, just preening at the top of an alder (I think). That confused me because I take brambling to be a ground-dwelling bird but that...
  6. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    Plenty of wigeon at Camp Lane and the female goldeneye. Being late, the starlings started to murmur and I reckon about a thousand dropped into the reeds by the causeway. That seems a likely place to be disturbed, so I wonder if they settled.
  7. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    The first black tern of the season was worth going for. Two little egrets and at the far end of CLP dozens of juvenile herring and lesser black-backed gulls with nary an adult among 'em. No sign of the cattle egret despite several recumbent cows looking like they might camouflage it. Sand...
  8. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    First reed warbler of the year for me at the south end of CLP. A few lapwing, one oyc and one redshank but otherwise quiet: some swallows and sand martins. Sling Pool had a couple of LRPs and one garganey was still there, asleep. Looks to be drying out (the pool, not the duck!)
  9. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    I counted three rock pipits late this afternoon, which I consider more wishful than one water pipit. This looks like one of them.
  10. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    Caught up with the garganeys (2M 1F) at Sling Pool and redshanks there and Camp Lane but... the highlight was a red kite drifting across the A443 on my way in - county tick for I.
  11. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    A cold and snowy walk farther north through what I believe is Waggon Wheel Lane Pits made me wonder why anyone ever goes there. I reconnected with the cattle egret cowering behind some bushes for shelter and just might have seen a great egret way off in the distance. Otherwise, the site looked...
  12. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    Cattle egret following a cow, of course, behind Church Farm this lunchtime. One pintail on the floods by the river and a pair of goldeneye flew in to the northern Camp Lane pit. One skylark singing too.
  13. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    The usual suspects, minus a few, at CLP this afternoon, so I took a detour up to the scrubby fields behind Church Farm. A mixed flock of pied wags and mipits boosted the trip (and month!) list, then a falcon alighted on a fence post. Kestrel, I thought, but got the scope on to it anyway. A...
  14. Steve Newland

    Grimley and Holt

    I'll stick my neck out and say green - broad bars on tail, very dark colouring, not much of a supercilium, no pattern on flanks. One problem is the lack of complete breast stripes.
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