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Busy with birds in the Cooks Lane area over Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
Best concentration was on one of the less-frozen lakes, where I counted:
Mallard c. 160
Canada Goose c . 75
Teal 3
Tufted Duck 1
Cormorant 1
In the hedgerows and fields around Cooks Lane itself, good numbers of Marsh Tits, Coal Tits and Long-tailed Tits, several Fieldfares [...]

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During a couple of outings on Boxing Day, Cooks Lane was alive with birds, the best being a loose flock of around 20 – 30 Siskins hanging off the alders. The wet woodland along the stream is obviously perfect for them, but I don’t recall seeing so many together before.
In the paddocks, there were several [...]

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