Not a lot to report this week despite continuing areas of floodwater…
Although it has remained frozen for much of it…
Although this didn’t put off the Black-headed Gulls or the Pied Wagtails with a dozen of the latter feeding on one ice-covered pool …
The only addition to the year list was a pair of Wigeon on
the floods at Langlands and there were also six Shelduck here together with around 35 Curlew. The flock of
Golden Plover has increased to 110…
with an estimated 200 Lapwing still present but that was about it.
I’ll finish with a Greenfinch taken today in the trees in the
Old Rectory garden…
A common species but one that has declined dramatically in the village over the last few years presumably due to the impact of the trichomonosis disease which has hit this species particularly hard. There are some signs of recovery though and I have seen noticeably more this winter than for a number of years.
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