Saturday 30 January 2010

30 Jan 10 Cathkin

The morning dawned cold and bright and there was a light dusting of frozen snow in places. The temperature at 9am was -1.5.

The area around the dump held 2 Tree Sparrows and c10 Yellowhammers and c10 Chaffinches. A Reed Bunting  was also calling. A Great Tit was showing an interest in one of the nestboxes.

I failed to refind the Brambling of last Sunday but the feeding area still held C30 Yellowhammers with smaller numbers of House Sparrow, Chaffinch and Reed Bunting. There was up to 10 Tree Sparrow present and a single Greenfinch.

A Skylark called overhead and a Snipe was flushed from the edge of Windlaw Marsh. Another Snipe was heard in flight.

A female Kestrel regularly hunts over the braes:















Up to 3 Common Buzzard were seen this morning:

No sign of any Stock Dove this morning but the usual Woodpigeons were present:

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