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Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park, Billingham. UK
lovely sunny day for a walk along from greatham, the place was awash with the song of chiffchaff and willow warblers. the usual birds on the lake with a pair of goldeneye displaying and a few shoveler at the back, 2 lbb gulls on the cormorant island. mute swan, canada goose and coot all seem to... -
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Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park, Billingham. UK
matt the hide sometimes mentioned is in one corner of the lake though its no longer used as a hide so there isnt actually a usable hide at the park, people still mention it in terms of giving a location of a sighting. the feeding station is easily missed you have to go back out the car park... -
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Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park, Billingham. UK
had a walk here today from greatham village, quite a nice walk with plenty too see along the way, the lake was largely frozen over but a good number of gadwall was present and 4 pochard. the car park tables held the usual with a male brambling visiting briefly, headed over the road after this... -
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Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park, Billingham. UK
it was unbelievably quiet (bird wise) when i spent about an hour or so there this morning ian, didnt see a single bird until the lake. i didn't know 100% until i was home that they were spotted flycatchers but after reading how they feed and often return to the same perch it was exactly what... -
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Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park, Billingham. UK
had a brief look around this morning around 6.30 am only birds of note where 2 spotted flycatchers feeding near the lake which were chased off by a male sparrowhawk. -
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Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park, Billingham. UK
pair of bullfinch, reed bunting, yellowhammer, blue and great tit along with a few chaffinch in the feeding station, greenfinch in carpark feeding tables. 3 willow warbler in faith wood. pond devoid of anything but tufties and gulls on my visit last sunday. was hoping to see little owl but no... -
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Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park, Billingham. UK
decided to get up early after a night shift and have a look around here today as the weather forcast said a fine day with sunny spells so of course it was raining cold and windy beacause of the lack of sleep and bad weather we just stayed in the feeding station, lots of great and blue tits... -
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Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park, Billingham. UK
thanks ray and ian il have to go for a wander next week sometime DS -
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Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park, Billingham. UK
ive seen a few public footpaths on the map that lead into the park. im looking for a non driver route to the park from hartlepool using the local buse's to get close as i can then walk the rest which is best path or is this even possible to access by foot DS -
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Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park, Billingham. UK
a look in today as i had organised a lift to hopefully see the glacious winged gull but with talking to a few people around who all seemed disapointed i went along to the park as i knew they'd be a few birds around katy hadnt seen before feeding station was pretty empty food wise but blue and... -
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Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park, Billingham. UK
some great birds and some great photos there ian 3 days of work coming up will hopefully get back there and see just as much with the added bonus of seeing something new, and prehaps breaking the 100 species for my first year birding, but il settle for just seeing some good birds. be my last... -
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Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park, Billingham. UK
thanks ian il be sure to have a look next time i have a willing driver and car to ferry me about last time was a bit of a rush i got there around 1.30 with it getting dark before 4 now i had to hurry round DS -
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Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park, Billingham. UK
im guessing looking at the pictures others have i missed the feeding station on my first visit here last week, i only seen the area around the tyres near the car park i never looked near the visitor center (what im guessing is the visitir center looks like a log looking building ?) is this... -
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Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park, Billingham. UK
my ever first visit here today since i began an interest in birds seen my first ever shoveler (6 in fact 2m 4f) also > male reed bunting greenfinch - 6 goldfinch - 10-12 cormorant - 4 tufted duck male 2 fem - 4 grey wagtail goldeneye - 2 mute swan - 2 little grebe - 2 greylag - 1 large...