Local Patch & Beyond 2023

Black Bank: 13:40 to 16:40. Heavy showers, sunny periods and cool.

Buzzard - 1
Magpie - 4
Blackbird - 7
Crow - 7
Reed Bunting - 6  (5m 1f)
LT Tit - 8
Chaffinch - 8
Dunnock - 1
Great Tit - 6
Blue Tit - 8
Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 female
Coal Tit - 2
Robin - 1
Whooper Swan - 39 
Wood Pigeon - 4
Moorhen - 2 
Tree Creeper 
Greylag - 44
Kestrel - 2
Sparrowhawk - 1 male chasing the wee birds , not sure if it caught one.
Brown Hare
Roe Deer - 2

Farmers Lane: 16.50 to 17.20

Black-headed Gull - 109
Pheasant - 8f 1m

Very enjoyable despite the rain.

Max
 

Black Bank: 

Stonechat - 2 ( a pair with pics and videos, will post pics) they made my day after an horrible Saturday.
Tree Sparrow - 1
Redwing - 15
Yellowhammer - 5
Starling - 20
Blackbird - 3
Kestrel - 2
Mute Swan - 25
Whoopers still in distant field.

Yaddlethorpe Sewage Works:
Moorhen - 2
Robin - 2
Black-head Gull - 2

Farmers Lane:

Linnet - 100
Goldfinch - 50
Chaffinch - 20
Common Gull - 50
Buzzard

John
 

Feb 8th:  Farmer's Lane -  Brumby Common West:   Sunny & bitterly cold wind.

Blue Tit - 8
Reed Bunting - 14
Buzzard - 5  (pics of one)  with five on show at same time.
Linnet - c200
Kestrel - 5  ( all five on show at same time).
Feral Pigeon - c700  (they came with twenty-five yards, got pics).
Magpie - 16
Mistle Thrush - 3  (pic)
Skylark - 1
Crow - c50
Marsh Harrier
Goldfinch - 24
Yellowhammer - 38

Carr Dyke PS:
Kestrel

East Butterwick:

Kestrel
Roe Deer - 5

Black Bank: 

Buzzard
LT Tit - 9
Mallard - 6
Swans
Roe Deer - 3

Another good day despite more fly tipping down FL, this time furniture, spoke to council lad putting it in truck, he said it happened Monday PM!!

John

Black Bank:  13.30 - 13.55 &  14.45 - 17.00  Sunny and Cool 

Linnet - 50
Fieldfare - 209
Pied Wagtail - 9
Dunnock - 2
Moorhen - 2
Wood Pigeon - 4
Kestrel - 5
Starling - 20
Common Gull - 40
LT Tit - 6
Blue Tit - 12
Great Tit - 10
Coal Tit - 2
Goldfinch - 2
Buzzard - 1
Pheasant - 1
Brambling - 1
Chaffinch - 9
GSW - 1
Greylag - 4
Reed Bunting -  2  ( video of one)
Swans - two groups in usual location, where the Whoopers usually are they were distant and where the Mutes usually are it was unsafe to stop, in former group count was 20 and latter group 19.

Tuetoes: 14.00 - 14.30 

Little Owl - 2
Robin

At Tuetoes had a driver who was angry at where I'd parked, he shouted something out window so I approached and said what's up with you, (because I had my hood up with baseball cap poking out I must have looked like a scallywag) when he saw me he backed down saying sorry, I leant in window past his missus and said to them both 'never judge a book by it's cover' after that he was okay and so was I.

Had a cracking day again!

Cheers

John aka Max    

The day started well with Sprawk over house.  Decided to visit only one site on my local patch the one that has been most productive this year!

Farmers Lane - Brumby Common West:  12.15 - 15.30  sunny and cool.

Little Egret - 2  (one at each end of lane and got pics and video of one in dyke)
Feral Pigeon - c700 ( two groups of 500 & 200, managed to get video of both groups passing at same time lovely spectacle) 
Fieldfare - 11
Reed Bunting - 6
Common Gull - 24
Linnet - 200  ( got video of them going from one field of corn to another, lovely)
Buzzard - 4  ( saw one flying very low over the 200 pigeons and it got one and dropped to ground and stayed there thirty minutes)
Yellowhammer - 14
Long-tailed Tit - 9
Goldfinch - 50
Starling - 100
Robin - 4
Blackbird - 7
Jackdaw - 69
Jay
Magpie - 11
Crows
Sparrowhawk - 2
 Chaffinch - 9

Just over the bridge where I normally park there was a small container (canteen & toilet) and in the field a Hymac/JCB guarded by security fence etc, in that field and next one going west were 3' high steel posts with red/white tape on top ( will post photo later) not sure what is going on but will keep eyes open.  Also just before bridge some git had fly tipped a load of branches etc in parking area, normally can get a few cars there but today only me. 
 
Very enjoyable but also worrying till I find out what the digger is up to!

Cheers

John