Cromwell Bottom Day

    Thought I'd pop down to Cromwell Bottom for a hour yesterday
    as I haven't been for a while, nothing on the river as it was very
    high and fast moving so I then stayed at the bird viewing area for
    a while but it was very poor lighting for photography which was
    a shame because the birds were doing there best for me,
    Blue, Coal, Great Tit and LTT, Robin, Reed Bunting, Nuthatch,
    Blackbird, Dunnock, Bull and Chaffinch kept popping into the
    area with Corvids on the outskirts and a Cormorant flyover.
    3 Great Black Backed Gulls flew over Claremount Hill on
    Saturday morning early doors and the Sparrowhawk but she
    didn't catch anything this time, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Wren,
    Robin, Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Blackbird, Collared Dove, Great
    and Blue Tit have been visiting the garden along with a couple
    of feral Pigeons.

Gutted

    Gutted when I got home from work yesterday and found
    a Mistle Thrush wrapped up in an old teacloth that the wife
    had wrapped it up in after trying to revive it, she said it had
    flown into the window after being chased by our daily
    Sparrowhawk who has already claimed a Goldfinch and a
    Collared Dove out of the garden, I used to like seeing it but
    Im fed up with it now as the Dove and thrush were getting
    quite tame towards me, Ive a Robin that eats out of my hand
    so Im hoping that stays safe,  I know its nature but its still
    upsetting she was a beauty.

   Good turn out at the Calderdale Bird group last night and
   bought myself a 2016 Northern Raptor report.

 

                                          Missy the the Mistle Thrush

Garden Visitors

   Day off today but wasn't venturing out in this weather 

   so just had a garden watch and there was plenty of visitors

   to the garden, 12 Goldfinch, 4 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch, Wren,

   Robin, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Blackbird, Jay, 2 Collared Dove,

   2 Pigeons, 6 Jackdaw, 5 Crow, 6 Magpie, Dunnock, 2 Blue Tit,

   1 Sparrowhawk flythrough, and a surprise and a first for the 

   garden was a Rook on the bird table, 8 Starling.

  

   The birds are deffo storing for the cold as they went through 

   the food like wildfire and I was up and down like a yoyo with

   having to keep filling the feeders and table.