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Brown Hare x 15 in fields around the bird hide.

Barn Owl x 1 in farm yard

Common and Soprano Pipistrelle Bat x 3 in farm yard

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Grey Squirrel - running along the garden wall

Robin, Wren, Starlings (bird feeder)

Magpie - Cobble Hey track

Rabbits, Goldfinches

Swallows on telephone wires

Red Admiral and Tortoiseshell butterflies - Cobble Hey garden 

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3 brown hares in the field at the back.

Kestrels, Red Grouse, Mallards, Goldfinches, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Juvenile Robin, Swallows, Starlings, Chaffinches, Dunnock, Blackbird, mouse, Pheasants,

Kingfishers (at Crook O'Lune, near bridge)

Kestrels near Cobble Hey

Pair of Buzzards

Partridge (up lane)

Jay (near school)

Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler

Stoat (near gate at end of lane)

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Heron by pond, swallows and sparrows, pheasants, plenty of farm animals.

Highlight of the week - kingfisher at Scorton Picnic Area!

Thank you to the Eade family for making a note of these sightings.

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Wren, robin, junior goldfinch, curlews in field and overhead,lapwings - flock flew over garden.

Heron by the millpond, mallards and moorhens.

Swallows and swifts.

Pheasants, squirrel on the lane to Calder Vale.

Hares in field.

Hens and ducks in the farmyard!

Thank you to the Moore family for making a note of these sightings.

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2 jays in field nearby, blue tits at the feeding station at the cottage, heron in evening sky, stoat running across road nearby, 

5 curlews, 6 lapwings, 4 hares, numerous house sparrows, lots of cows and sheep.

Pheasant, swallows, robin, wren, squirrels, mallards.

Thank you to Robert & Diane Payne for making a note of these sightings.

Sightings from the bird hide

3 lapwing chicks and several adults, 2 kestrels, hares

Bird hide viewings

Lapwings 5 and curlew 1

Bird hide sightings

Lapwings 30+, curlew 4, rooks 20, swallow, kestrel, partridge, hares, snipe, pheasant, geese (flying past) 20, pipits

Sightings from the bird hide

Lapwings displaying (lots) - amazing

Curlew 1, snipe 1, pheasant 2, grouse 3, kestrel 1, oystercatcher 1, mallard 3, hare 1.

A bright sunny evening!

Thank you to the Ashfords for making a note of the sightings in the nature diary

Bird hide viewings

Lapwings 10, curlew 2, swallows 3, house martins 5, buzzard and hare

Sightings from the bird hide

Lapwings 20 + including at least 6 on nests.

Curlew 5

Redshank 3

Oystercatcher 4

Grey wagtail 1

Meadow pipit 1

Pied wagtail 2

Kestrel 1 female

Stock dove 2

Raven 1 flew over 

Brown hare 8 +

Thank you to Gavin Thomas RSPB for making a note of these sightings in the notebook in the bird hide.

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The following wildlife was seen during a stay at the cottage 28th March to 4th April 2015

starlings, magpies, blackbirds, robins, blue tits, siskin, greenfinch, chaffinch, sheep, cows, pheasants, chickens, ducks, lambs, horse, kestral, butterfly, wood pidgeon

Thank you to the Payne family for making a note of these sightings in the nature diary

Wildlife sightings

Lots and lots of lapwings, 2 pheasants, crow curlew and skylark.

Seen from the bird hide.

Wildlife sightings

Buzzard, pheasants, crows and lots of lapwings seen from the bird hide.

Sightings from the bird hide

2 lapwings, a few crows but no mad march hare!

Sightings from the bird hide

Lapwings, hares, curlew, starlings and pheasants.

Lambing season

Lambing season has begun!

Lapwings return

The lapwings have returned to the farm. Heard them calling this evening!