Haden Hill & Corngreaves NR Last Week

Well  we haven't done ant birding for three weeks for a number of reasons, so it was nice last Wednesday to get out for an hour and take a stroll around our local patch Corngreaves NR and a bit of Haden Hill Park for an hour or so in the spring sunshine.

It always seems quite when we first enter the reserve, but we soon started to see a few things;
Treecreeper,

 Robin posing nicely,

 Green Woodpecker,

 Grey Squirrels everywhere of course,

 a few Long-tailed Tits

 and a Jay looking for a bite to eat.

The lower pool didn't produce anything exciting, just the usual Mallards, Coot, Moorhen and a couple of Canada Geese. Elsewhere of course the obligatory Crow, Jackdaw, Woodpigeon, Blue, Great and Coal Tit, Blackbird, Chaffinch and Dunnock.

The final sighting was a Sparrowhawk, just as we returned to the Corngreaves Car Park. So a nice hour in the sunshine and thankfully not too many dog walkers down in the reserve.