First chance today to have a proper walk out. The floods
continue to turn up the goods. 300 Greylags, 50+ Teal, at least fourteen Wigeon, two Gadwall, Little Grebe, 300
Lapwing, 20 Golden Plover, 45 Curlew and a Dunlin spotted in flight and then
located amongst a distant Lapwing flock.
This is one of only a handful of parish sightings and a bird
I didn’t pick up in 2015.
Good numbers of winter thrushes around today with the
largest flocks of Redwing since the first autumn arrivals, many of them feeding
on the ‘tide line’ of the floods. Other birds totting up the 2016 year list
included Little Egret, Kingfisher, Redpoll and a winter Chiffchaff.
This Kestrel was again ‘hunting’ worms.
As I watched a second bird flew in with what I at first
thought were falconer’s jesses, in fact it was a huge earthworm dangling from
its feet. The other bird chased after it
and attempted to grab the worm but justice prevailed and it was unsuccessful
Nice also to see four Roe Deer on Langlands today, the first
I’ve seen since last summer.
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