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Joined: Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:07 am Posts: 487
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Holywell Lake: A mixed wood with some good scrubby areas. Little grebes -pair Mute swans - 2 pairs one on nest Canada Geese Greylag geese Mallard - several pairs one with ducklings Gadwall- 1 pair Wigeon -2 Tufted Duck - 8 Coot - 2 nests Moorhens 1 Common Buzzard 2 Swallows Green Woodpecker 1
Holywell Wood s = singing males Grey partridge 2 Grasshopper Warbler 1s Garden Warbler 2s Blackcap 5s Willow Warblers 7s Chiffchaff 5s Nightingale 1s Willow Tit 1 Lesser redpoll 2 Bullfinch 6 Buzzard 2 kestrel 1
Also walked in the adjoining Pickworth wood which lies over the border in Rutland. This differs fro Lincolnshires Holywell Wood in that it is a mature deciduous wood. Only different birds were 2 pairs of Marsh Tits, pair of Mallard and a Whitethroat.
Stantons Pit Whitethroat 3 s Willow warbler 5s Chiffchaff 2 s Blackcap 1 s L Grebe - pair plus another pair across road Lapwings - 5 pairs across the road House Martins 8 Swallow 2 Green Woodpecker GS Woodpecker
A total of 60 species this morning - not bad for an inland location.
Ian
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