Incredibly, when out looking for fungi yet again this evening I stumbled across another good Flintshire bird: a Marsh Tit!Truth is indeed stranger than fiction; go out looking for Wood Blewits at Coed y Garth and find a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker; go out looking for Chanterelles (pictured above) at Llyn Helyg and I find a Marsh Tit.
I’m sure there is some strange, profound cosmic truth here – either that or I am becoming psychotic from eating too many mushrooms. Or maybe I am just feckin’ lucky…
I picked up the Marsh Tit feeding in the undergrowth right near the entrance to Llyn Helyg at SJ117777 – just over the style next to the metal gate and on the left.
It is perhaps not too surprising to find them here as it is classic Marsh Tit habitat: mature deciduous trees with plenty of rotting stumps and branches. Hopefully one may even have the courtesy to pay a visit to my feeding station in my back garden a mile away in Lloc.
Even closer to home, the Little Owl that lives in the old oak across the road from me was in good form last night waking me up with a few verses of loud screeching at three in the morning.
Taking its cue from the Little Owl, the local Tawny Owl also decided to crank it up a little too. Any chance of some sleep chaps?
Llyn Helyg 14.10.10
1 Marsh Tit
13 Chanterelles
Until later.
You have a little owl that lives across from you and you never said! Would love to get some pictures, I've yet to even see one! Were gonna have to arrange something, and maybe I can get you into that site I told you about, where there's marsh tits galore!
ReplyDeleteHi Paul
ReplyDeleteDon't forget who put you onto Llyn Helyg!!!
Seriosly though,it really does prove the benefits from knowing other Birders.
Interestingly,apart from the Lapland Bunting,I also found the Colliery to be fairly quiet,with 17 Common Snipe,and 14 Mistle Thrushes being the only other birds of interest,and of course the Kingfisher and the Little Grebes were on the Main Pool as usual.
I think that there's a good chance of a Cetti's there at some stage as well this Winter.
I'm going to keep adding to the Feeding Station in Coed Y Garth Wood as the Winter progresses,because the Nut Feeder is doing a 'Roaring Trade' with Nuthatches,Great,Blue,and Coal Tits being regular visitors.
The Willow Tits were all in 1 group,just outside the Woodland at the top of the rise.
Cheers Denzil
Hi Denzil,
ReplyDeleteYou'll have to let me know where the feeding station is and then I can keep it topped up too.
The Lesser Spotted Woodpecker was also outside the wood - not far from the last cottage as you walk up the hill to the entrance - the house with the RSPB sticker in the window...
Cheers,
Paul.
Hi Ash,
ReplyDeleteThe Little Owl is is an old oak tree about fifty yards back from the road and in the middle of a paddock.
It's very hard to see because of the leaves, but hopefully when they fall off it will be easier to spot.
I know the chap who owns the field and I'm sure he would be quite happy for you to take some photographs.
The owl has actually been on a tree stump close to my back garden too, but not for a couple of months.
You're certainly welcome to pop over some time...
Cheers,
Paul.
Hi Paul
ReplyDeleteThe Willow Tits were in exactly the same place as the Lesser Spot.
The 'RSPB STICKER HOUSE' also has an open front style Nesting Box fixed to the wall outside which looks good for Redstarts or Spot Fly's next year,so I think it might be worth us keeping an eye open on it.
The Nut Feeder is very easy to find.
I've simply hung it on a small bare tree about 15 feet up directly in front of the wooden bench that is on the main footpath along the top of the woodland.
Provided that it remains untouched by anybody,I will replace it with a Squirrel Proof one,and then also add a greater variety of foods for the Winter months.
It may sound absurd to worry about a Feeding Station,but during the last hard Winter that we've just had,I hung up 5 feeders along a hedgerow in the 'Middle of Nowhere' near to where we live,which were literally emptied every single day,due to the huge demand for food by the birds,but they were 'Smashed to Smithereens' by some idiot after about a month.
Cheers Denzil
Hi Paul
ReplyDeleteAn interesting visit to Ffynnongroyw today,for no other reason than to see so many birds going to roost there.
The Old Colliery Site had roosts of Meadow Pipits,Pied Wagtails,and Mistle Thrushes around the Scrap Yard,and Tits in the reedbeds,and there were also a lot of Common Snipe on the ground around the Pools.
The Nut Feeder was busy again with all the usual suspects,but it was a really nice treat to see a Marsh Tit using the Feeder regularly as well.
FFYNNONGROYW
52 SPECIES RECORDED
69 SPECIES RECORDED TO DATE
LATEST ADDITIONS - 17-10-2010
WIGEON,GADWALL,MARSH TIT.
MEADOW PIPIT c100
MISTLE THRUSH 14
PIED WAGTAIL c20
COMMON SNIPE 31
LINNET c20
KINGFISHER 1
LITTLE GREBE 1
OYSTERCATCHER c3000
BLACK TAILED GODWIT c100
NUTHATCH 1
TREECREEPER 1
MARSH TIT 1
GREY WAGTAIL 2
Cheers Denzil
Greeat read thank you
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