Durham Bird Club's Castle Lake Nature Reserve

Saturday, 7 February 2015

Saturday 7th February 2015

Some sightings for today;

Stoneybeck Lake - 2 Mute Swan, 2 Shelduck, 2 Gadwall, 10 Teal including a pair copulating, 33 Moorhen, 27 Coot, 1 Redshank and 13 Lapwing.

Castle Lake - 6 Mute Swan, 2 Shelduck, 5 Pintail including 3 drakes and some display, 2 Grey Partridge, 2 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 400 Golden Plover, 600 Lapwing, 90 Curlew, 2 Redshank, 1 Green Sandpiper, a 'Scandinavian Herring Gull', 1 3rd winter Great Black-backed Gull (pictured below), and an overflying Skylark (but none yet back on territory).

A1 Flashes - 1 Shelduck, 4 Shoveler, 40 Curlew and a distant Peregrine.

Low Hardwick - 1 Common Buzzard and a Kestrel.

Final sighting was a Fox near Alan's Pool.

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