Spring birding

Back to Tuesday, and after another failed attempt for Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, I had a quick wander on Budby Heath, bagging my first Woodlark of the year - no Crossbills though. The rest of the morning was then spent at Brierley Forest CP on a Willow Tit workshop led by Carl Cornish; we even saw one later on!

Today, and I managed two county yearticks. One is sensitive, but the other was an LRP at Collingham Pits, on Mons Pool this evening. As well as the latter, the female Common Scoter, found earlier this afternoon, was still on Ferry Lane Lake (despite a dog walker doing her best to flush everything off by chucking sticks in the lake for her dogs to fetch). In addition, a Green Woodpecker here was my first patch bird of the year - so three patch yearticks in the space of an hour. 

LRP

Common Scoter