Shelduck on Thursday

1 Shelduck on Reservoir yesterday.

219 Canada Geese in West Field Today

12 Lapwing

Pintails at ringstone

1 Female Pintail today at Ringstone at 2pm. Reports of a male in Eclipse with here came through at 7pm. Also 32 Lapwing 150+ Canada Geese in West Field. 32 BH Gulls 2 LBB Gulls and 4 Common Gulls on West Shore. 3 Willow Warblers in bushes near Feeding station with Gt Tit Blue Tit JUV Robin Greenfinches Goldfinches Wren Dunnocks and Blackbird.

100 House Martins and Swallows feeding over reservoir.

Wigeon

Today 1 Wigeon on reservoir showing a lot of white on left hand wing? also 3 LBB Gulls

Swallows still flitting around. Yesterday and for much of last week 200 Canada Geese in West Field with 1 Greylag Goose. 10 Lapwing on East Shore . A Male Sparrow Hawk has been very active this week with a few visits to the feeding station and sat on the north shore Monday and Wednesday. Willow Warblers at feeding station yesterday with all the usual.

stonechats still feeding young

Stonechat feeding young just down from inflow this morning

On Reservoir

26 Bh Gulls

4 Common Gulls

1 Lbb Gull

15 Lapwing

1 Gt Crested Grebe

On Feeders

8 Greenfinch

6 Goldfinch

4 Linnets

2 Blue tits

3 Dunnocks

1 Juv Robin

1 Willow Warbler

House Martins/Swallows 1 Swift over reservoir

Redshank

07:30 strong west winds and showers 18 degrees

1 Redshank on East Shore

2LBB Gulls

52 BH Gulls

2 Oystercatchers

Common Scoter and ?

Common Scoter on reservoir today with a different Scaup? not conviced, thought it was a Female Tufted Duck. Not an expert on any bird but just seemed to have start of crest. I waited to see if they would come in close and they did for about 5 mins so i got some better shots. Any Comments welcome

Peregrine

Juvenile Peregrine at reservoir this morning, trying to catch Gulls, Crows, Pigeons anything really. Also reports of a Whitethroat up near the quarry this afternoon.
No Sign of Scuap.

Scaup

Scaup still showing well today at 1200pm

over 300 Gulls on Reservoir

Friday

Over 250 BH Gulls on reservoir , 3 Lbb Gulls

2 Gt Crested Grebe

Flock of 30+ Greenfinch

9 Swallows

4 House Martins

2 Swifts >W over North Field

8 Linnets

4 Skylark

Scaup at Ringstone 7am today

I Got a text message off John Watson yesterday to say he was pretty sure there was a female Scaup at Ringstone yesterday. I put the word out and a few Halifax birders turned up and agreed. These photo were took today 02/08/07. Scaup was still their at 1pm.

Also 3 lbb Gulls

100+ BH Gulls

12 Lapwing

2007 species list here

Update

I Have been away and have been busy with Ringing . I will Try and catch up with Ringstone News.

7 Juvenile Goosander Last week on Reservoir, Common Sandpiper and Wheatear. Also Young Stonechats seen in West Fields.

Thanks to John Watson for the updates.

Sunday Nick Carter reported a Whimbrel on the west pool and 2 Sedge Warblers in the Juncas. Just got back from Hols and rushed up there to see them.

Yesterday over 100 BH Gulls and 3 Lesser Black Backed Gulls.