Friday 6 January 2012

Update for birdracers...........

For all the rival teams doing the Michael Clegg Memorial Birdace on Sunday, I checked the Reedbeds tonight at Old Moor and saw very little of note. For those not doing it however, both the Bittern and Cetti's Warbler were present at dusk. Also seen were Water Rail, Green Sand, Great S Woodpecker and 20+ Goosanders. A large skein of geese passing through were thought to be Pink-feet.

The Great Grey Shrike was relocated this afternoon, seen from the public footpath in a hedgerow one field down  from High Hoyland Church.

More details on Beans: The four 'Tundra' birds are at Broadstones, east of the Reservoir on Broadstones Road - SE202067, just in West Yorkshire.

Nearby, the first-winter White-front was on Broadstones Res. and c120 Pink-feet passed over as well as several hundred Lapwings.

Pager News: Yank Wigeon still at Wintersett, 'Greenland White-front Anglers, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Haw Park.

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