Oldhamstocks
There is no shortage of garden birds - blackbird, sparrow, dunnock, starling, wren, robin, the tit and finch families. Song thrush numbers are down but in winter there are mistle thrushes, redwing and fieldfare. Kestrels, sparrowhawks and buzzards dive on prey in fields and road verges. In Dunglass Dean there are woodcock and occasionally, tawny, barn, short- and long-eared owls; the young conifer plantations also attract goldcrest, redpoll and long-tailed tits. Collared doves arrived in Britain in the 1950s and are now common. Jackdaws colonise cliffs, ruins, and the putlog holes of old bridges. On Dunglass estate's small lake there are moorhen, mallard and little grebe; the burns have dippers, pied wagtails and herons. Unfortunately, several species have disappeared: sea eagle, raven, hooded crow, nightjar, little owl and corncrake.
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