Not much seen on the way up through Marl Pits apart from an odd few tits. 18 Snipe flushed from moorland above Edge Cote + 2 Meadow Pipits. 1 Green Woodpecker calling from below conifer plantation. c80 Fieldfare flew into tree tops below Edge Cote farm. Small group of finches at Edge Cote farm on feeders c10 green & chaff + 1 Coal Tit.
Hurst Lane, Chapel Hill farmland c100 Redwing in tree tops and feeding c50 mixed Greenfinch, Goldfinch and Chaffinch around stables. 2 Bullfinch c70 Starling 1 Mistle Thrush c4 Blackbird c15 Magpie 1 Heron perched in tree 1 Jay 7 House Sparrow at Waingate, part of a much larger resident flock.
