A freezing cold day, all the pools were well and truly frozen solid, apart from the Spring Pool which still had a certain amount of free water. On my own today as even Twinkle my Bedlington Terrier didn't want to venture out.
Siskin - several male and female birds around the visitor's centre.
Feral pigeon - several around the brickworks.
Goldfinch - several, largest flock 10 birds.
Bullfinch - 2 separate male birds by visitor's centre, male and female by Upper Wishing Pool and 3 males by the brickworks.
Kestrel - male in the Bag Pool area.
Collared dove - 2 in flight by visitor's centre.
Coal tit - 4 separate sightings of single birds.
Nuthatch - several, most seen at one time 4 by Spring Pool.
Lesser black-backed gull - c.5 in flight over Bag Pool, 1 in flight later.
Little grebe - active bird on Spring Pool.
Great spotted woodpecker - in Whites Wood.
Mistle thrush - on field alongside Miners Path.
Tawny owl - roosting bird in Whites Wood oak tree.
Total for 2009 - 38
Total for Baggeridge - 37