Bradshaw & Ogden

A late morning / early afternoon jaunt to Ogden Water, a laugh in the visitors centre with Pat & Steve and a jaunt back the way I came, was my birding day today.

Before that I had mist and drizzle for company on my "last minute" Christmas shop to Morrisons.

Nice to bump into Roy H on Syke Lane, delivering a Turkey - he'd make a good District Nurse our Roy would.

Very dull out and about but it stayed mostly dry on the walk with more-or-less the same birds as usual, except 6 Tufted Duck were here today.

An unusual sight was of three Treecreeper all climbing the same tree at the same time - Top, Middle & Bottom - reminded me of darts in The Royal Oak at Ambler Thorn, Queensbury when I was minus 20 years old.

Birds:-

Bradshaw - Ogden Lane.

3 Red Legged Partridge.

Little Owl.

6 Stock Dove.

5 Canada Geese.

Herring Gull / Common Gull / Black Headed Gull.

Pheasant.

Kestrel. 

Mistle Thrush - singing.

3 Greenfinch.

Chaffinch.

Ogden:

(Two Laps).

2 Nuthatch.

Raven.

4 Treecreeper.

Goosander.

5 Goldcrest.

(Lots of Goldcrest calls - I wonder how many Goldcrest are here!!).

Long Tailed Tit.

6 Tufted Duck.

A Kingfisher that flushed from the east side trees flew north along the water.

Herring Gull / Common Gull / Black Headed Gull.

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1998