I took another stroll around Old Moor today to see what was there..
I reckon I got the last parking spot in the car park too ! .. There were loads of visitors and it had been necessary to have a handsome car park attendant named John ..The garden feeder area had plenty to see, bullfinches, chaffinches, greenfinches, goldfinches, blue tits, great tits, willow tits and long-tailed tits. Reed buntings and a blackcap were also reported.The sacrificial crop area had yellowhammers, reed buntings, linnets, chaffinches, tree sparrows (one building a nest in a nestbox) and 2 dunnocks.The Field Pool had Canada geese, greylag geese, wigeons, mallards, shovelers, great-crested grebes, little grebes, coots, moorhens, redshanks, lapwings, black-headed gulls, mute swans and pheasants. A willow warbler was singing just outside the hide on the East side of the pool.Wath Ings had mallards, pochards, tufted ducks, wigeons, gadwalls, little grebes, moorhens, coots, Canada and greylag geese, ringed plovers, a little-ringed plover, redshanks, lapwings, black-headed gulls, pheasants and a sparrowhawk.The Wader Scrape had greylag and Canada geese, goosanders, mallards, wigeons, tufted ducks, gadwalls, teals, shovelers, coots, moorhens, ringed plovers, lapwings, redshanks, oystercatchers, black-headed gulls, jackdaws and pheasants.The Mere had mallards, tufted ducks, goldeneyes, gadwalls, wigeons, coots, moorhens, lapwings, redshanks, cormorants, Canada geese, little grebes, black-headed gulls, 3 lesser black-backed gulls and a few sand martins.News from Wombwell Ings was that there were 2 whooper swans, 7 little-ringed plovers and 3 white wagtails. A few golden plovers were also present.