Friday, April 07, 2006

Prescot reservoirs
Chats and thrushes abound!!The female ring ouzel was still present for its second day briefly this morning but was pretty elusive preferring the ruff edges of the compound and covered res. Wheatear corner was very busy this morning with the male redstart, male stonechat, 3 male wheatears and 6 meadow pipits on show. 5 sand martins and 5 local barnacle geese passed overhead whilst watching these chats. A willow warber was singing in the ranch. A tawny owl called from the plantation late morning.
On the reservoirs today
24 goldeneye
12 tufted duck
2 great crested grebe
2 gadwall
10 mallard
29 0ystercatcher
20 lapwing
12 canada geese
1 greylag

2 comments:

Otis Bilious said...

Aah Haa! Me thinks that you wanted to save your energies for the Prescot Res blog.

Puts on Deerstalker, fills pipe and berates Dr Watson for finding your blog...

Nice Blog Steve.

Regards

Otis Bilious

Steve Tomlinson said...

Damm and blast
I didn't think you would find this blog as I had cunningly disguised it with the clever title steve's birding blog. It was totally inspired by Another Place.
SteveT