Wagtails and Plovers

Some great local birds today at the rough ground at Kingsway Business Park Rochdale. Three Yellow Wagtails, several White and Pied Wagtail and a good selection of plovers. More Little Ringed Plover than Ringed Plover. Also present were Lapwing and many Meadow Pipits, Skylark, 2 Dunlin and a Redshank.
Back at home some Lesser Redpoll are enjoying the free seed as well as a Treecreeper who I have seen several times over the last weeks feeding on the ground

Kielder Goshawk

Had a fantastic bright and sunny Saturday 17th. March at Kielder Forest. The target were Goshawk  and we were not to be disappointed. We arrived before 9 and saw none for the first couple of hours. We did see enormous numbers of Crossbill though and it was great watching them feed and get good experience in listening to their calls. We saw several soaring Common Buzzards before a brief drive in the car to get some refreshments. As we drove out onto the main road we watches a male Goshawk fly over the road and circle back several times before disappearing ofcourse before I got to the camera! We then returned to the Bakethin area and watched at least 2 Goshawk sky dancing, climbing high then diving with folded wings and shooting back up still with closed wings like a roller coaster. It was quite spectacular.
On the way home we stopped off at a service station just before Carlisle ob the M6 and was at least 200 Pied Wagtails on the car park area and in the trees getting ready to roost. We picked out one White wagtail amongst them. Kielder is a fabulous remote area and I look forward to returning again.