Saturday 4 January 2014

Wintersett 04.01.14

4°C,  mild, grey and drizzly.    8/8 cloud  with a light south easterly.
Anglers CP: Water Rail 1,  Snipe 6,  Little Grebe 3,  Cormorant 19,  Pochard 113 + 11 CHRes  + 6 WRes.   67 Greylag Goose and 141 Canada Goose were in the CP fields.
Haw Park Wood: Redwing 40,  Buzzard 1 and Crossbill 22.
CHRes: Kingfisher 1.
 Anglers CP Gull Roost tonight held: 2 adult Yellow-legged,  2 Lesser Black-backed,  466 Great Black-backed and 1400 Herring Gulls.  Wintersett Roost wasn't checked.
Phenology: The first moth of the year,  aptly named Early Moth, was seen.  A Hazel tree on the golf course was full of catkins.


Hazel Catkins -  4th January 2014

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