Sale Water Park - 31st March 2013

TRIP: SWP and Area
Date: 31/3/2013
Time: 4-6.15pm

Hawthorne Lane:

1 Goldfinch
3 Blackbird
2 Robin
Some Longtailed Tits nr Turn moss
Great Tits

A couple of unidentified birds, a larger brown walking down towards the Mersey, have to watch out for this one again.

Broad Eees Dole:

30+ Black Headed Gulls including 1 Lesser Black Backed Gull*
2 pairs of Teal
7 Canada Geese (more flew in later)
4 Moorhen
5 Coot
1 Grey Heron
2 Little Grebe
Mallards M+F

On the Lake:

2  Great Crested Grebe
1 Mute Swan
# Canada Geese
# Black Headed Gulls
3 Robin

Feeding Station nr Cafe/Visitors Centre:

4 Great Tit
1 Robin
1 Coal Tit*
5 Long Tail Tit
2 Blue Tit
2 Pied Wagtail
1 Nuthatch*

Around the area there were the usuals, Magpies, crows, wood pigeons.

*Some new ones for the list today:

Nuthatch, Coal Tit and Long Tail Tit and Lesser Black Backed Gull

Dunham Park - Sun 10th Feb 2013

Today we were hoping to spot some Great Spotted Woodpecker around the park, there had been some recent sightings of woodpeckers fighting for territory.

We didn't see any woodpecker and it was a miserable afternoon, wet and freezing however it was still worth while and we saw a couple of tree creepers, one near the car park and the other in the trees near the old Water Mill.

Here are todays recordings and photo's.

Time: 2pm to 4pm

New
 2x Treecreeper
 6x Tufted Duck
10+ x Fieldfare, numerous in teh trees nr the watermill.
1x Robin

Usuals
In the lake, Mallard, Moorhen, Coot, Mute Swan, Great Tit

Photos

Deer wandering around the park

Mallards and Tufted Ducks

Great Tit

Fieldfare in the trees

Singing away on it's perch

Example of a Tree Creeper, unfortunate on my photo you couldn't actually see it :o))