2 Willow Tits one in the wood south of the River Douglas Bridge half way between Parbold and Appley Bridge and one singing 1km to the west near the footbridge over the river. Year list 121
3-4 Red-legged Partridges Wood Lane. Year list 122
Corn Buntings Year list 119
Yellowhammers Year list 120
1 Barn Owl over Catchdale Moss Lane near its junction with Howard’s Lane at 06:30. Year list 118
1+ Marsh Tit Border Moss Wood
1-2 Green Woodpeckers heard around Crook Farm
4 Goosanders at Fish House Bridge
Roe Deer Border Moss Wood
The Kites seem to have disappeared from here or maybe I was just unlucky today
Walking through the beautiful Scots Pine forest on Rusland Moss felt very like being in Rothiemurchus
Had a good bar meal at http://www.skelwithbridgehotel.co.uk
Climbed up to Yew Barrow / Rusland Heights / High Dam in the afternoon
Yellowthroat Year list 117
Nothing to add to what’s already been written / photographed elsewhere
1 Bittern showing well from Ainscough Hide 11:00-11:30. Year list 116
22+ Goosanders
1 Marsh Harrier
3 Peregrine Falcons
80+ Ruffs Year list 113
c1900 Whooper Swans Year list 114
2 Grey Wagtails at the sewage works. Year list 115
Going to this event tonight:
1 Surf Scoter in the harbour. Year list 106
1 Whimbrel on rocky islet Carreg Ddu. Year list 107
3 Great Crested Grebes Year list 108
3 Red-throated Divers
2 Goosanders
2 Purple Sandpipers just east of the Natural Arch. Year list109
167 Golden Plovers in the field next to the coast path near the Natural Arch, a regular wintering site. The flock also contained 19 Dunlins and another 3 Dunlins were in with a Starling flock in the same field. Year list 110
3 Grey Plovers Year list 111
2 Razorbills Year list 112
1 Goosander
9 Song Thrushes in a small field at Mynachdy, Rhos-y-llan
1 Woodcock over the A487 at its highest point between Caernarfon and Britannia Bridge at 17:45
AM a walk up the east side of Ullswater from Patterdale as far as Scalehow Wood, returning via Silver Crag
PM Patterdale to Angle Tarn, well above the snowline today
c150 Barnacle Geese with Canada Geese grazing the lawns of the Ullswater Hotel [the Inn on the Lake]. Not necessarily a feral flock: the Solway isn’t too far away and they did look kind of wild. Year list 105
2 Dippers on the lake shore, one singing, just north of Silver Bay
c110 Red Deer on Patterdale Common on fells either side of Rooking Gill
