My final parish bird list for 2017 was a distinctly feeble
101 species, the loss of wader habitat is probably the main reason so waking
yesterday to quite extensive floods in the Bottom Fields I was hopeful of
kicking off the new year with one or two goodies.
In the end it was quiet, the only wildfowl were 22 Mallard and
half a dozen Greylags. There were reasonable numbers of gulls on the floods with
around 200 Black-heads but only half a dozen Herrings and a single Common Gull.
There was also a nice, if mobile, flock of Lapwings.
The only other bird of note was a Grey Wagtail on Langlands…
The apple trees by the waterworks have now been virtually
stripped of fruit but were still attracting Fieldfares up to a couple of days ago…
The floods had receded significantly this morning…
But a walk in the Magic Garden turned up Kingfisher, Siskin,
my first Treecreepers (two) since last summer…
And half a dozen Goldcrests in a large tit flock…
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