5th Apr – Williamson Park/Fenham Carr
All singing:
– 4 Nuthatch
– 4 chiffchaff
– 1 each song and mistle thrush on Fenham Carr
– First singing blackcap of the year on Fenham Carr
– Wrens, robins, blackbirds, coal/great/blue tits, chaffinches & dunnocks
Also:
– Two mallard pairs on Fenham Carr reservoir (in addition to 30 mallards on the main duck pond)
– 19 nests in the rookery on Fenham Carr
6th April – Langthwaite
Langthwaite Reservoir:
– Roosting on the solar panels: c50 oystercatcher, c15 lapwing and 1 cormorant
– Gulls: c30 LB, c10 herring and 1 GB
Blea Tarn Reservoir:
– 8 mallards (all male)
– 4 pairs of wigeon
– 5 tufties
– 1 shelduck
– 1 GC Grebe
– 17 oystercatchers
– 1 curlew
– Several alba wagtails
Today – Lancaster canal, Skerton to Hest Bank
– WeBS: 6 mallards and 1 moorhen
– Also: 10 mallard ducklings, 1 singing willow warbler, c10 singing chiffchaff,
