Dan reported 28 linnets yesterday at the feeding station. The pens have disappeared so I can’t post a complete list.
Author: Nieduszynska
Flora Field and Sightings Board
Ian and I flushed 4 snipe in Flora Field – near the northern boundary.
Board:
Feeding tables: chaffinch 30, reed bunting 5, blue tit 2, great tit 1, dunnock 2, blackbird 4,
Drumlins: c.100 redwing and fieldfare
Overflying : c 150 pink foot
Admiralty Wood: greater spotted woodpecker
Hedgerow: song thrush
Jan21st bird reports
On the sightings board: Chaffinch 65 , blackbird 8, reed bunting 7, linnet 13, jay 1, great spotted woodpecker 3, redwing 6, fieldfare 2.
and a sparrow hawk in Pony Wood and redwing by the FAUNA stones
Remains of the fallen horse chestnut
The Wednesday volunteers joined, by Andy Lee worked on the fallen tree in Pony Wood on Wednesday. The trunk and larger branches were sawn up and left in situ, the smaller branches were taken into the wood to make a hedge of brash: although dead wood is good spread around a woodland to rot down naturally, too much can cover ground flora, encouraging perhaps brambles to grow over it to shade out lower plants. It can also cause a problem for access for management in the future. Stacking brash either in heaps or rows is beneficial to small mammals, birds, insects etc, but a row or hedge can create corridors through the wood to connect to outside boundaries etc. Eventually they compost down with mosses, lichens and fungi to increase nutrients to the woodland floor.
Bird sightings on the board
Feeding Station
chaffinch 20+, blackbird 4, robin 4, great tit 2, blue tit 2, dunnnock 2, reed bunting 12, wood pigeon 4, pheasant 1,
Pony Wood
jay 1, redwing 6, mistle thrush 1, wren 1 goldfinch 6,
Overflying
pinkfoot 40, greylag 15
Linnets
We have had an answer from Jon Carter about the loss of linnets this year. He said that they did a circuit of the maize fields on Aldcliffe Marsh and Fairfield. The maize has bee replaced by grass so the linnets are no longer interested
Early January records on the sightings board
Chaffinch 38, linnet 11, reed bunting 4, stock dove 4, blackbird 4, greenfinch 1, gold crest 1, song thrush 1, goldfinch 12, long-tailed tit 6, and 1 little egret in West Field.
Yesterday Will Walton dropped off more feed from the RSPB
More linnets at the feeding station
On Dec 17th Dan reported 52 chaffinch ( mainly males) and 15 linnet, plus 8 lapwing in Flora Field. Link to LDBWS website below.
LDBWS feeding station at Fairfield – Lancaster Bird Watching Society
Sightings Board Dec 15th
Feeding Station:
Chaffinch 33, stock dove, 9, reed bunting 4, robin, 3 blackbird 7, greenfinch1, goldfinch 1
Pony Wood:
Fieldfare 5, goldcrest 2
Also – twite and reed bunting recorded later – location not given
Very cold and ground remains frozen
Records from the sightings board
Recorded on Dec 7th during very cold weather
LDBWS feeding station : 24 chaffinch, 5 stock dove, 4 reed bunting (3F), 3 robin, 2 blackbird, 2 linnet
Pony Wood: 3 jay
West Field: 2 redshank
Song Thrush in a Birch Tree
A lovely song thrush this morning in the extension.