1 October 2025 - Hollingworth Lake

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4 Snipe, Linnets, Jackdaw

No sign of any Med Gulls today, but I was somewhat surprised when scanning from the Pavilion area, to find four Snipe on the edge of the shoreline on the nearby promontory. I walked around the shingle area towards the cafe and encountered a number of Linnets feeding along the rocky shoreline. There were also decent numbers of Chaffinch in the bushes along the edge of the wall, but nothing exciting with them, aside from the odd Chiffchaff.

Further round, I looked into the fields at the top of Bib Knowl and noticed a Jackdaw perched on a Ram's head, doing the Oxpecker routine!

Snipe, 1/640 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 2000

Linnet, 1/500 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 1250

Linnet , 1/640 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 2500

Jackdaw, 1/640 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 2500 (view full size image)