Durham Bird Club's Castle Lake Nature Reserve

Sunday 19 June 2011

Sunday 19th June 2011

Many thanks to John Olley for today's sightings.

Castle Lake
2 Green Sandpipers, 14 Oystercatchers, 30 Lapwing, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Grey Heron, 6 Mute Swan no sign of the cygnet, Greylag with 3 goslings, 44 Canada Geese, Cormorant, 6 Little Grebe, 9 Great Crested Grebe (one bird still sitting), Gadwall duckling broods include 19,9,9,5,7,7 with a further 20 adult birds, 60 Mallard, 20 Tufted Duck, 4 Teal, 6 Shoveler, 8 Pochard, 3 Shelduck, 98 Coot, 4 Moorhen, 8 Black Headed Gull, 2 LBB Gulls, 240 Sand Martin, 20 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 12 Pied Wagtail mostly juveniles, Reed Bunting, 2 Meadow Pipit and Skylark all singing and displaying. Yellowhammer, 20 Tree Sparrow, 2 Stock Dove, 40 Starling and male Kestrel. 

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