Sunday 14th February a.m.
A bright sunny start to the day for a change making a big difference to our mornings birding, still cold with a temperature of 1°C on arrival at Harold Park.We went straight to the lake where there were good numbers of birds including
Canadas,Coots,Moorhen Tufted Ducks,Mute Swans &
BH Gulls.Always good to see the resident
Great Crested Grebes, today there was an additional one possibly a first year bird, it was well away from the other two.Also up in a tree was a
Grey Heron & under the trees near the island a first for us here in the form of a male
Pochard.We walked to the small pond first hearing then seeing a pair of
Greenfinch on our way, at the pond there were still five
Goosanders along with two
Mute Swans, Coots &
Moorhen.
We then moved the short distance to Park Dam where there was eight
Goosanders,Canadas, Tufted Ducks, Cormorant,BH &
Common Gulls,a single first year
Mute Swan and seven
Little Grebes.
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| Grey Heron |
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| Pochard |
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| male Goosander |
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| female Goosander |
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| Adult GC Grebe |
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| GC Grebe poss first year |
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| female Tufted Duck |
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| Canada - Park Dam |
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| Cormorant - Park Dam |
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| Little Grebe - Park Dam |
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| eight Goosanders at Park Dam |
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| Harold Park Lake |
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| Harold Park Pond 14/2/2016 |
Great to get Little Grebe.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what's happed to Ogdens Little Grebe though.
John
Thanks John, Park Dam is one of the more reliable spots for Little Grebe, a bit of sunshine when your there tends to bring them out more as well.
ReplyDeleteCromwell Bottom used to have a few on the lagoon but not been seen for a while, always nice to see em.
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