Ogden Water and Golf Course Area

A miserable drizzly morning saw me have a run over to Ogden to check for DJS's Common Redstart seen recently nr. the golf course area.

I spent about an hour having a mosey around the area in quite wet drizzle, not ideal conditions.

Not much hereabouts really, and no sign of the Redstart alas.

I walked back to the water and did a circuit, bumping into NK along the way.

Birds:-

Nine Cormorant, drying their wings on the east side rocks.

c80 Gulls 80 / 20 Lesser Black-backed / Black Headed.

A couple of Common and a few, 5 ish, Herring Gulls.

4 Oystercatcher flying over the north of the golf course.

Dipper in the dark sluice area.

2 Jay, Whitethroat calling.

Pied Wagtail feeding a young bird.

Linnet, Bullfinch, Swallow , Song Thrush.

Juv. Heron in the golf course stream.

A Wrens nest in the stream wall - birds calling and parent visiting but nest was out of sight.

Chiffchaff.

Willow Warbler in the 'Common Restart' tree line.

Pheasant.

1 Lapwing along the water's edge - unusual for Ogden.

A Tawny Owl calling once from somewhere near the maintenance building was odd?