Evenin all :-)
A nice day today !! ....
Lots to tell too from the various areas around Old Moor ...
Wath Ings had 2 mute swans with 6 cygnets, 30+ coots, 20 Mallards, 2 little grebes and around a dozen black-headed gulls ..
Reported from the Wader Scrape were 80+ lapwings, 5 common terns, 50+ starlings, a juvenile pied wagtail, a herring gull, 2 lesser black-backed gulls, mute swans, 2 little grebes, a great-crested grebe, a black tailed-godwit, 2 common snadpipers and2 redshanks ...
The Bird Garden had a juvenile great spotted woodpecker, yellowhammers, 2 bullfinches (m+f), 10 chaffinches, 2 great tits, and greenfinches ..
There was a reed warbler near to the children's play area and a willow tit was seen on the car park feeders ...
On Green lane a bank vole was seen ..
Todays no fixed abode report was of tufted ducks with 13 ducklings .. A nice report, wherever they happened to be :-)
Over on Wombwell Ings were juvenile swallows, a flock of goldfinches and a weasel ...
Here's Nige's report from Bolton Ings ..
Seen here were 6 great-crested grebes, 12 little grebes, 27 tufted ducks with broods of 13,10, 9, 8, 6, 6, 6, 4 and 2 !! .. 10 pochards, 131 coots, a cormorant, 2 lapwings, 5 oystercatchers, 147 black-headed gulls, 4 lesser black-backed gulls, 2 common terns, a great spotted woodpecker, 4 chiffchaffs, 3 whitethroats, 3 blackcaps, 2 reed warblers and 3 sedge warblers ...
Cheers Nige ;-)
Today's butterflies were ringlet, small copper, meadow brown, small white, speckled wood and large skipper ..
Damselflies seen were azure blue, common blue and blue-tailed ...
And that my friends is that !!
The sun is shining as I type this and I can feel a well deserved lager rapidly approaching ..
In fact .. Here it is now !!
Have a great evening everyone :-)
Bert xxx