jay-jay
Well-known member
I have taken on a second job to buy a DSLR and lens, i now have enough money for the camera(canon 400D) i will have to wait a while longer for the lens. But having very little spare time that coincides with daylight my 2007 list is very short with just one outing to date. During 2006 my list numbered 170 I would like my 2007 list to be 200.
Monday 8th January 10.30am-1.30pm
Dull and cloudy followed by heavy rain.
29 sightings
1 Black headed gull
2 Herring gull
3 Great black backed gull
4 Rook
5 Pheasant
6 Redwing
7 Crow
8 Woodpigeon
9 Jackdaw
10 Blue tit
11 Starling
12 Mallard
13 Blackbird
14 Goldfinch
15 Mute swan
16 Tufted duck
17 Coot
18 Greenfinch
19 Wren
20 Chaffinch
21 Great tit
22 Dunnock
23 Siskin
24 Bull finch
25 Coal tit
26 Goldcrest
27 Great spotted woodpecker
28 Moorhen
29 Kestrel
I went into Market Weighton and saw the jackdaws on the church and house chimney pots, I then drove to the lay-by near the household tip between Holme on Spalding Moor and Shiptonthorpe and managed to see the three gull types along with rooks and starlings. The next port of call was a public footpath along side a stream and small pond on the road towards the Cliffe woods nature reserve, mallard and tufted duck were in the pond across the road from the car. Coot were in the stream, mute swans were on a flooded field beyond the stream. On returning to the car a wren was hopping about in the brambles and a large flock of goldfinch with one greenfinch landed on the grass verge and road side until a car went past. Moving on to Cliffe woods of special note was a flock of chaffinch at least 10, a lone male bullfinch, several grey squirrels running along the ground and in the trees. A flock of 50 plus siskins were hanging upside down feeding on the alder trees. Rain now started to fall and crossing heather and gorse land little was to be seen, climbing a stile and re-entering the wood produce a pair of coal tits and the goldcrest. The final stretch to the car resulted in a great spotted woodpecker, the kestrel and moorhen were seen from the car on the drive back home.
I was going to go onto north cave reserve but the rain was now very heavy and I decided to call it a day.
11th Jan
views from bedroom window over garden and fields
30 House sparrow
31 Tree sparrow
32 Magpie
33 long tailed tit flock of 11
34 Mistle thrush
35 Collared Dove
driving home from the supermarket
36 Barn owl sitting on fence post
Monday 8th January 10.30am-1.30pm
Dull and cloudy followed by heavy rain.
29 sightings
1 Black headed gull
2 Herring gull
3 Great black backed gull
4 Rook
5 Pheasant
6 Redwing
7 Crow
8 Woodpigeon
9 Jackdaw
10 Blue tit
11 Starling
12 Mallard
13 Blackbird
14 Goldfinch
15 Mute swan
16 Tufted duck
17 Coot
18 Greenfinch
19 Wren
20 Chaffinch
21 Great tit
22 Dunnock
23 Siskin
24 Bull finch
25 Coal tit
26 Goldcrest
27 Great spotted woodpecker
28 Moorhen
29 Kestrel
I went into Market Weighton and saw the jackdaws on the church and house chimney pots, I then drove to the lay-by near the household tip between Holme on Spalding Moor and Shiptonthorpe and managed to see the three gull types along with rooks and starlings. The next port of call was a public footpath along side a stream and small pond on the road towards the Cliffe woods nature reserve, mallard and tufted duck were in the pond across the road from the car. Coot were in the stream, mute swans were on a flooded field beyond the stream. On returning to the car a wren was hopping about in the brambles and a large flock of goldfinch with one greenfinch landed on the grass verge and road side until a car went past. Moving on to Cliffe woods of special note was a flock of chaffinch at least 10, a lone male bullfinch, several grey squirrels running along the ground and in the trees. A flock of 50 plus siskins were hanging upside down feeding on the alder trees. Rain now started to fall and crossing heather and gorse land little was to be seen, climbing a stile and re-entering the wood produce a pair of coal tits and the goldcrest. The final stretch to the car resulted in a great spotted woodpecker, the kestrel and moorhen were seen from the car on the drive back home.
I was going to go onto north cave reserve but the rain was now very heavy and I decided to call it a day.
11th Jan
views from bedroom window over garden and fields
30 House sparrow
31 Tree sparrow
32 Magpie
33 long tailed tit flock of 11
34 Mistle thrush
35 Collared Dove
driving home from the supermarket
36 Barn owl sitting on fence post
