Local patch

Barton Clough

It's Christmas Eve and the collared doves have been singing, the woodpigeons a-courting, the magpies are building a nest in the tree across the road and the rooks are flying round in courtship packs.

I had a lunchtime wander round the local patch. The keen wind made me glad I did the walk round the mosses the other day. It was fairly quiet, the bulk of the birds being a couple of flocks of pigeons flying over into Trafford Park.

Magpie, Barton Clough
(Limestone chippings track bed, not snow)

A touch of Winter was provided by a small flock of redwings chattering in the Lombardy poplars lining the path from Old Hall Road. 

A rabbit darting down the old railway track bed was expected, I see one every other visit. The fox that trotted across and disappeared into the brambles was a surprise.

Barton Clough

• Blackbird 8 
• Blue Tit 2 
• Carrion Crow 3 
• Common Gull 3 
• Dunnock 2 
• Feral Pigeon 59 
• Goldfinch 1 
• Great Tit 4 
• Jackdaw 1 
• Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 
• Magpie 15 
• Mistle Thrush 3 
• Redwing 7 
• Robin 2 
• Starling 3 
• Woodpigeon 5 
• Wren 2