Leen Pastures Feeding Station

At the Mill Lakes this morning there was a single Little Grebe near the Vehicle Bridge at dawn, and a singing male Song Thrush in the Willow Carr. Four Cormorant were in the usual tree on the island, and six Fieldfare were seen to have roosted in poplar trees adjacent to the Dipping Ponds. A massive 120-180 Siskin were in a large mobile flock that kept splitting and feeding in different groups of alder around the lake and on the islands, with around ten Lesser Redpoll on the Peninsula. Later, around 150 Siskin were seen flying north over Leen Pastures Feeding Station from the direction of the lake. A single Stock Dove was with a few Woodpigeon in the field alongside the Leen, and a Grey Heron flushed from the river bank where the path runs right alongside the river. A Green Woodpecker was in the trees behind the Leen Pastures Feeding Station, two Willow Tit showed well as they repeated fed from the table, and a small group of Long-tailed Tit stopped to feed on the peanut feeders. The House Sparrow collony showed well in the hedgerow at the Main Entrance, and a single Goldcrest was in a yew opposite the Wildlife Garden by Khalsa Wood.