Great White Egret and Pink-footed Geese this morning on Cowpen Marsh.
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Mistle Thrush, Long-tailed Tit, Bullfinch female and Greenfinch this mornig at Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park.
Buzzard overhead and Blackcap in the car park.
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Barnacle Geese x10 this morning on Back Saltholme at RSPB Saltholme. No neck collars or leg rings so probably wild birds.
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Buzzard this morning on west pond at RSPB Saltholme. I watched it catch and eat a vole and then catch a rabbit.
Snipe x5 and Great White Egret from Phil Stead Hide.
Also Marsh Harrier, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine and Kestrel.
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Pink-footed Geese c.200 still on Cowpen Marsh
Also Marsh Harrier & Buzzard.
Great White Egret x2 & Whooper Swan x5 opposite Cowpen tip entrance Seal Sands Road.
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Bullfinch and Treecreeper x2 this morning at Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park.
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Pink-footed Geese c.250 still on Cowpen Marsh this morning. Regularly flying around to land in same spot. Only raptor seen was a Sparrowhawk.
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Siskin, Reed Bunting & Redwing this morning in Discovery Zone at RSPB Saltholme.
Also Fieldfare and Chiffchaff.
Pink-footed Geese c.20 low overhead flying north.
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Blackcap male and female this morning at Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park.
Buzzard on pylon alongside Seal Sands Road.
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Whooper Swan x5 (2ad, 3juv) this morning opposite Cowpen Tip entrance Seal Sands Road.
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Buzzard x2, Fieldfare & Redwing this morning at RSPB Saltholme.
Also distant Marsh Harrier.
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Trecreeper x2, Bullfinch x3 (2m,1f), Goldcrest & Long-tailed Tit this morning at Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park.
Also Great Spotted Woodpecker m&f.
Blackcap male still in the car park.
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Great Spotted Woodpecker male and female, Long-tailed Tit and Reed Bunting male this morning at Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park.
Also Buzzard and Sparrowhawk overhead.
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Redwing this morning at RSPB Saltholme.
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Siskin this morning at RSPB Saltholme.
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Goldfinch and Bullfinch x4 (3m,1f) this morning at Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park.
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Whooper Swans x7, Goldeneye, Marsh Harrier m&f this morning over/around Paddy's Pool at RSPB Saltholme.
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Siskin, Reed Bunting and Goldfinch this morning in the Discovery Zone at RSPB Saltholme.
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Go out the VC back door towards the Wildlife Watchpoint. Everything on your right is the Discovery Zone. There's a boardwalk through the reeds and an area of trees including alders which the Siskin and Goldfinch were feeding in. Lots of hawthorns as well for the Redwing, Fieldfare and Blackbirds.

Woodcock this morning by Wildlife Watchpoint at RSPB Saltholme.
Also Great White Egret from the hide.
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Siskin flock in Discovery Zone feeding with Goldfinches. Also Fieldfare &Redwing.
Whooper x5 over main lake heading south.
Goldeneye and Pink-footed Geese from Paddy's Pool. Also Marsh Harrier. At RSPB Saltholme.
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Fieldfare, Pink-footed Geese, Goldeneye, Pintail this morning at RSPB Saltholme.
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Ruff with Lapwing and Golden Plover c.1000 this morning on Cowpen Marsh being disturbed by a Sparrowhawk.
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Wren with damaged bill, Chaffinch, Greenfinch and Bullfinch x4 (3m,1f) this morning at Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park.
Also briefly a Treecreeper, Tree Sparrow x2, Reed Bunting male and a Jay.
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Coal Tit, Tree Sparrow, Bullfinch and Great Spotted Woodpecker this morning at Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park.
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Twite c.180 this morning at Seaton Snook. I counted 178 in one photo.
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Pink-footed Geese x16 heading south over Seaton Common this morning. Quite low down. One with a silver/grey neck collar but too distant to read. Looked to drop down onto Bran Sands.
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They over winter here until about the third week in April. Generally they return during August though one year I recorded one back here in late July.
I'm not sure if they've ever been recorded in their breeding areas wherever that is. I'd guess the Pennines maybe.

Yep. That one is an August 2019 bird.

Common Buzzard, Crow picking at a fresh BH Gull carcass, Great White Egret and Marsh Harrier on/over the clay field this morning at RSPB Saltholme.
Also Fieldfare x6 feeding on hawthorn berries, Meadow Pipit x6 and Goldinch c.40.
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