Durham Bird Club's Castle Lake Nature Reserve

Monday, 10 October 2016

Monday 10th October 2016

First post for a while due to holidays and work commitments etc.

Sightings from this morning;

Castle Lake - 1 Pink-footed Goose which later flew off to the south, 140 Wigeon, 16 Shoveler, 8 Grey Partridge, 1 juvenile Great Crested Grebe, 3 Cormorant, 1 Little Egret, 7 Golden Plover, 250 Lapwing, 7 Snipe, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Redshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, 10 Common Gull, 5+ Skylark, 2 Swallow heading north!, 33+ Pied Wagtail and a nice flock of 9 Corn Bunting including juveniles.

River Stell - 3 Mute Swan.

Low Hardwick - 20 Mallard, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest and 6+ Long-tailed Tit.

River Skerne - 1 Kingfisher.

Alan's Pool - 2 Wigeon, 1 Kestrel, 8 Moorhen and 4 Snipe over.

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