Fantastic weather today and it feels like all change in the
parish. The reeds around the Manor Lake were thick with frogs this morning and
they were putting up a strikingly loud ‘chorus’
A pair of Mute Swans have also moved back on to the Manor
Lake.
I photographed this flower in the Magic Garden today. It’s a
species of scilla but don’t think it’s one native to Britain so assume it is a
garden ‘escape’.
The winter thrushes are moving out with Andy Johnston
reporting good numbers of Redwings passing high over Scruton yesterday and there
were knots of Fieldfares moving over Morton last night. Higher numbers of Song Thrushes in the Magic
Garden today may have also been migrants. They seemed much more flighty and
nervous than the resident birds.
I caught up with my first Redshank of the year yesterday,
flying over the river, and this morning added another year-tick in the shape of
a Woodcock. The bird flew up from this drain in the Magic Garden which has proved
an attractive spot for migrant Woodcock over the years.
If I had been paying more attention I may have been able to
photograph it but in the end inadvertently flushed it at close range.
More butterflies around today too, including this small
tortoiseshell on the stained glass in the church.
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