Monthly Duck Count 20.11.11

[Neil Southworth]

Yarrow Valley Park:- Mute Swan 5, GC Grebe, Tufted Duck 4, Mallard 51, Coot 7, Moorhen 4, BH Gull 53, Dipper 2 including one singing.
Common Bank Lodge:- Little Grebe 2, Goosander 4, Mallard 20+
Heapey Lodges:- Hybrid Goose 2, Mallard 30, Tufted Duck 2, Coot 2, Moorhen 5, BH Gull 6, Reed Bunting, flock Fieldfare and Redwing, GS Pecker, Jay,
Anglezarke reservoir:- Hybrid Goose 2, Mallard 166, Teal 2, BH Gull 56, LBB Gull, Herring Gull
High Bullough:- Mallard 5, Tufted Duck 5

N.B. The count at Yarrow, Upper and Lower Rivington Reservoirs was abandoned because of fog

[Bryan Thomas]

Tufted ducks at YVP were being mercilessly dive-bombed repeatedly by the gulls on the Big Lodge this morning.

[Neil Southworth]

Completion of duck count 21.11.11:-

Yarrow Reservoir:- Mallard 20, Herring Gull 3, Grey Wagtail
Upper Rivington:- Mallard 34, Teal 8, BH Gull 2, Pied Wagtail
Lower Rivington:- Mallard 44, BH Gull 70, LBB Gull 4, Common Gull 6

[Joyce Riley]

Fungus specimens you brought me (thanks) that you found near Anglezarke Reservoir were identified as Wood Blewit (Lepista nuda) - pale pink spores and although only a trace of purple on the stem, old/dry specimens fade and look as the specimen. I have found this species by Anglezarke Reservoir in November in the past but further along the path in the wood beyond High Bullough Reservoir.