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Baggeridge Country Park (January 5 2009)

Redwing - several in Whites Wood, 1 by visitor's centre.
Tawny owl - the regular roosting spot in the Whites Wood English oak was vacant, but the bird (most certainly the same one due to plumage) was again in the holly tree that it occupied yesterday.
Kestrel - hovering by Bag Pool.
Song thrush - 1 by visitor's centre, 1 on Lydiates Hill.
Greenfinch - numerous.
Great spotted woodpecker - in flight near visitor's centre.
Lapwing - 4 birds in flight over Bag Pool, travelling from the direction of the Straits towards Red Lane. Later saw a single bird in flight just clearing the tree tops at Whites Wood heading from Himley towards the Straits.
Great black-backed gull - single bird in flight.
Green woodpecker - in flight to Lydiates Hill.
Jackdaw - several on Lydiates Hill and Whites Wood.
Total for 2009 - 44
Total for Baggeridge Country Park - 43