Wednesday 18 March 2020

Low Moor Dams

1020-1135 hrs. Minimal moisture, grey clouds sometimes letting through blue, mainly calm.
4 Skylark, 1 Reed Bunting on the way down to Shelf & several House Sparrow. The Rookery at Shelf Mills had 16 birds attending the nests.


Harold Park Lake and Park Dam between them produced 1 Herring Gull, 2 LBBG & 2 immature that I've still to sort out plus the smaller gulls. Usual Coots & Moorhens.




Also 18 Tufted Duck (a pair of these displaying), 1 each Muscovy Duck & Cormorant ditto Mute Swan. 3 GC & 2 Little Grebe. Several more House Sparrows, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Greenfinch, 7 Blackbird and 1 each GSW & singing Chiffchaff in Park Dam woods.