Friday 11 January 2013

Dingwall Point 11/01/13 ....

Weather has been miserable the last week, still haven't really bothered to go out much. Today (11/01) it was frosty and sunny so nothing was going to stop me heading out somewhere. I decided to go to the point in Dingwall and combine with doing the BTO Winter Thrushes Survey. I walked all the way up the river to the railway line then all the way back in the other direction to the Conon river estuary. Plenty of birds around, 35 species in all. Highlights included a low flying Buzzard being mobbed roughly 10 metres away and a flock of c100 Twite in the Hawthorn edges of the agricultural fields. There were also large winter flocks of Buntings, Finches and Sparrows. On the survey front there was only handful of Blackbirds, no Fieldfare or Redwing at all even though there were still plenty of berries around and I had seen them here plenty times before. Not even a Song Thrush.

Still it was good to get out and managed to add some species to this year's list in no particular order:

Black-headed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Grey Heron
Greylag Goose
Pink-footed Goose
Wigeon
Teal
Mallard
Tree Sparrow
Curlew
Dunlin
Redshank
Cormorant
Lapwing
Reed Bunting
Yellowhammer
Tree Sparrow
Wren
Twite
Little Grebe
Goldeneye
Hooded Crow
Oystercatcher
Shelduck

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