Durham Bird Club's Castle Lake Nature Reserve

Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Tuesday 19th January 2016

A decent selection of birds seen this morning;

Castle Lake (60% frozen) - 2 Mute Swan, 200+ Canada Geese, 3 Shelduck, 4 drake Pintail, 12 Shoveler, 500 Lapwing, 1 Dunlin, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Fieldfare, 2 Mistle Thrush and 10 Corn Bunting.

Alan's Pool - 2 Mute Swan, 2 Common Snipe, 2 Jack Snipe and a Meadow Pipit.

Fishburn Lake - 2 Mute Swan with a further 6 overflying out of Stoneybeck Lake, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Goldcrest, 1 Marsh Tit, 1 Nuthatch and a Jay heard only.

River Stell - 1 Little Egret and 2 Green Sandpiper.

A few photo's from today;

The Marsh Tit at Fishburn Lake was very confiding and called frequently.

 

Nuthatch at Fishburn Lake.

Dunlin at Castle Lake.

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