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Winwick Fields/Fiddle pool

8:30am -12:30pm
Pool opposite Fiddle
Redshank
Little stint not 100% but very likely
Little Grebe
Shoveller x 2 males only. Presume females are possibly sitting.
Yellow/grey and pied wagtail on at different times.
Grey heron
Gadwall 2 male
Swift's over(at least 6)and swallows feeding low over the water.




Paddocks,fields trees and hedgerows (Old Alder Lane)
10+ Yellow Wags
2 female northern wheatear
3 Yellow Hammers
Sedge Warbler
Grasshopper warbler ( heard reeling but not seen)
10 Linnet
3 buzzard
2 Oystercatchers
Skylarks about also tree sparrow, chaffinch, greenfinch, goldfinch.
Fir trees opposite pool plenty of goldcrests.


Howard Arends


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