Monday 13 November 2017

13th November

A walk along the river on a bright, but surprisingly cold, morning. Around 60 Curlew were in the beet field near the bridge…


There have been really good numbers of Curlews around the last few days including a flock of around 160 in the large open fields near the school and 40+ down Potter Lane.


The river itself was fairly quiet but I saw Kingfisher, three Snipe, two Little Grebe, a small flock of Golden Plover and my first Goosander since the spring…


And what, from a distance, I took to be an interesting wader…


but it was only an Oystercatcher (although the first I have seen since June).  

A flock of 200 Fieldfare in the Bottom Fields on Saturday were the first of the autumn, around three weeks later than usual. There were still good numbers around today…


I walked back via Langlands Farm flushing four Grey Partridge. A Corn Bunting was surprisingly in song here and a single Grey Wagtail was feeding around the field drains…



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