It took me until October to see my first Nuthatch in 2023 but they were much more obliging this year with daily visits by at least two birds to our bird-table…
Even better was my first garden Marsh Tit record for more than twenty years.
With sightings elsewhere in the parish, and friends reporting similar visits to bird-tables, perhaps there is a local upturn in fortunes?
Elsewhere extensive floodwater was still around but didn’t
attract the numbers of birds compared to the Christmas period. Nonetheless it
was good to tick off Shelduck, Teal and Wigeon for the year…
Other records of note included a skein of 44 Pinkfeet over the village, a roost of 200 Fieldfare on Langlands and two Green Sandpipers on the river.
So My first week of 2024 has turned up 51 species (compared to 101 seen in the whole of 2024).
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