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  1. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    DBC/Sunderland Countryside Volunteer Day have teamed up to finance and build a tern raft for Barmston Pond anybody interested in supporting and putting their DIY hands to good use meet at the pond at 10.30hrs this Staurday the 15th. We will float the raft into position in April. We have aslo...
  2. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Mr Chairman hope these sightings are going onto the Atlas........:-C
  3. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Volunteer Day Before i forget which i did yesreday the bird club are having a scrub bash'n day and putting up further barn owl boxes on Saturday the 9th at Brancepeth Beck meet at the car park at Page Bank at 09.30hrs NZ 233355 on the northern side of Page Bank bridge. Food and warm clothing...
  4. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Amazing situation scuzz, the question is who owns the bird and do they care there are a lot of barn owls in captivity and some people will release them into the wild the birds if lucky will survive but their natural wild instincts are severely reduced. I would advise to try and contact somebody...
  5. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Hi Paul, the club with the DBAP have come together to look at owl pellets and i have started to analyse pellets from sites where we have boxes looks promising so far. Croxdale estate are going into higher level stewardship soon and we hope to get further boxes up with money from the mineral...
  6. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Roker Martin I see and agree with your enjoyment of birds and bird watching, taking notes or not your local patch where ever it may be you watch may one day have a planning application for housing etc. If the club has knowledge of the birds for the site whatever the numbers or species we can...
  7. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Barn Owl Pellet Investigation. Picked up two very large dark pellets this afternoon below one of our (DBC) Barn Owl boxes, i took them home for analysis and found 5 short tailed field vole in one and 4 in the other. Im in anticipation of the birds utilising the box this year as the local...
  8. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Hedleyhope Fell, Browney Valley (Broadmeadows and Stuartfield Lodge) and High Brandon Today Hedleyhope Fell Single Short Eared Owl and Long Eared, Snipe 11, 51 Pink Footed Geese-north, 300 Lapwing, Red Grouse 2, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Kestrel, 4 Reed Bunting and single Grey Heron. Stuartfield...
  9. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Castle lake over the last three days Lapwing 1000+ Golden Plover 100 Redshank 38 Wigeon 500 Teal 300 Gadwall 30 Tufted Duck 50 Shoveler 12 Mallard 40 Coot 80 Canada Goose 60 Greylag Goose 100 Mute Swan 12 Grey heron 3 Little Grebe 4 Yellowhammer 40 Goldeneye 2 Large numbers of wildfowl on A1...
  10. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Ian i had a very rare morning on the North Tees Marshes yesterday the black throated diver was on the large body of water close to the tall ship at 11.00am.
  11. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Eagle Owl It will not be surprising to most on the bird forum that Eagle Owls are breeding regularly in parts of the country originally or a high percentage being from escapes thus the bird at Sacriston has a good chance of attracting a mate?
  12. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    On a more practical note; Any hardy chap club or non club member wishing to volunteer to remove reeds to transplant to Hurworth Burn please meet at Hardwick CP grid reference NZ 346288 at 09.30hrs this Wednesday the 16th.
  13. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Durham Bird Club Funds The impression that Durham Bird Club have lots of money is certainly misplaced much of the this money is actually spent on the club bulletin and annual report. Now that we have a nature reserve (castle lake) to manage supported by a project called littler to glitter...
  14. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Upper Teesdale and Weardale today Gale force winds on the higher moors but eventually by noon raptors were up with single buzzard and kestrel around low scargill, blackton saw a single red kite, kestrel and buzzard onto eggleston common a single kestrel a distant pair of birds mobbing turned...
  15. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Hi craig did you get any age sex details of the harrier you saw at Rainton im just trying to quantify the number of birds in the county at present we certainly have a number of birds around ie Seaton and the upland areas, certainly this weather will have moved birds around. John.
  16. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Hi paul good records of Barn Owl i presume you have not had the barn owl box replaced. I would like to have a visit to the farm although the weather is poor at present i am free tomorrow if your not too busy. John.
  17. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    New Year Volunteering Wipe of those proverbial cobwebs and not to mention the festive liqueur and join the bird club at Hurworth Burn Reservoir to install fencing ready for planting up of reeds. We are working with the Durham Countryside Ranger Service with kind permission from Hartlepool Water...
  18. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Bearpark-Lanchester Walk and Aldin Farm 08.00 to 09.30hrs This is not a regular route for me as my Ranger activities are restricted to Broom park but being a good area and accidentally bringing my bins it was worth every effort as an otter swam across the browney close to the the remains of...
  19. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Super stuff Steve im going over there tomorrow with Derek C. Im dropping of two bags of cans we are now up to a hundred pounds for castle lake, hopefully by January we can utilise some of the money to carry out some work. Steve if you can make it to Mainsforth can you bring one of your Kestrel...
  20. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Hurworth Burn this morning and afternoon placement of seat next to feeding station- provided by Geordie the birder and Durham County Ranger Mark Rothery. Goerdie watched a Barn Owl earlier this morning 07.30hrs This afternoon provided Pochard 30 Tufted Duck 20 Mallard 60 Goldeneye 18 Wigeon...
  21. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Not to worry Derek, i had a stinking headache this morning i didnt even drink much the quiz must have given it to me not much of a reputation to keep. I think everybody will try and evade being on my team next year good fun whatever the outcome.
  22. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Hi Will and Bill the large raptor in the top right hand corner of your photograph looks very much like a harrier. John.
  23. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    John there is a Merlin around Hurworth Burn Reservoir not seen it myself but local watchers say its regular during mornings.
  24. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    A brief visit to Coxhoe tip and woodland area this morning almost certainly had an Iceland Gull but difficult with masses of gulls up and down on and over the tip. Other species included Bullfinch, Grey Partridge, Sparrowhawk, and kestrel.
  25. harrier olley

    Durham Birding

    Cornsay and Woodlands Hall area today A reasonable tally of birds over this under watched area of the county; Buzzard 2 Sparowhawk 2 Kestrel 3 Long Tailed Tit 70 Bullfinch 10 Willow Tit 4 Coal Tit 20 Marsh Tit Blue Tit 40 Mistle Thrush 8 Song Thrush 4 Fieldfare 200 Redwing 300 Goldcrest 12...
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