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Birdhill Wildlife Recording Results 2009
Summary of First Sightings
Date |
Species |
Location |
Comment |
16.01.09 |
Mink |
Pollaghs |
Marker 2. Crossing path |
20.01.09 |
Pair of pheasants, male & female |
Cregough Bog |
rising |
29.01.09 |
Snowdrops |
Cregough |
Garden |
11.02.09 |
Frogs spawning |
Cregough |
Garden pond |
14.02.09 |
Reed Bunting |
Pollaghs |
Pecking reeds by trail marker 6 |
21.02.09 |
Frogspawn |
Birdhill Village |
Private garden pond |
01.04.09 |
Fox |
Teefy's Hill |
Young male, evening |
15.02.09 |
Fox |
Carrigeen |
Old fox, slow, midday, mangy coat. Rested on wall |
17.03.09 |
8 mallard ducks |
Pollaghs |
Flooded field. Marker 8 |
02.04.09 |
Cuckoo |
Pollaghs/80 Acres |
Heard moving towards Pollagh Trail |
03.03.09 |
Primrose |
Woods west of Railway Station |
Area filled with celandine - was later carpeted with primroses & wood violets |
28.04.09 |
Cowslip |
Carrigeen Rock |
Other plants close by |
18.04.09 |
Bluebells |
Village |
Private garden |
20.04.09 |
2 hares 'boxing' |
Pollaghs field |
|
20.04.09 |
Water avens |
Pollaghs |
Near entrance |
Spring |
Rabbit |
Coosane road |
Lone, in private garden |
Winter/Spring |
Pair of doves |
Village |
Garden |
01.05.09 |
House Martins (2 pairs) |
Carrigeen |
Flying around old nest in house porch |
27.04.09 |
Orange Tip Butterfly (6) |
Pollaghs |
On cuckoo flowers |
01.05.09 |
Wood anemone |
Twiss' Hill |
|
06.05.09 |
Thrush |
Village |
Private garden (building nest) |
16.07.09 |
Jay |
Pollaghs |
Near Wildflowers/Insects sign |