Monday 24 January 2011

2011 Year List

Yesterday, Open Country from Harrogate visited the Teesmouth Field Centre. We went to the Hartlepool Power Station hide overlooking Seal Sands and had a great couple of hours watching the birds and seals. A Black-necked Grebe in winter plumage was feeding about 40 feet from the hide and then a Peregrine put on an aerobatic display that the Red Arrows would be proud to undertake. As the tide turned a flock of 60 Knot flew past and out of Seal Sands.

At the end of the day, I took the group to Cowpen Marsh car park to look for a Barn Owl. After 10 minutes, the Barn Owl started hunting in amongst the cows a wonderful sight for the group to see.

2011 Year List = 65 species (Peregrine & Knot).

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