With the wind most definitely turned it wasn't quite as cold as recent mornings, there were 3 Bullfinches in the car park and it again was nice and lively with good numbers of Chaffinches and House Sparrows and a couple of singing Dunnocks and Robins. A single Fieldfare flew over with several Starlings and a small group of 4 Siskins soon followed. Linnets normally like the veg garden and this morning a couple were investigating it, as I approached the lake a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker called 3 times but I was unable to see it. A few gulls drifted over as well this morning of four different species, the most for a while. The Marsh Tits were back this morning associating with a couple of Goldcrests, Blue Tits and Long Tailed Tits. In the fields there were 6 Skylarks, I could hear at least 2 Yellowhammers singing and a couple of Grey Herons flew over, later Stephen had a lone Lapwing over after he looked for what I was pretty sure was a Black Redstart, I had seen briefly this morning, unfortunately it didn't re-appear and my distant flight views weren't totally conclusive.
This Goldcrest stayed still just long enough! |
4 comments:
Hi Al, thank you for visiting my blog :) I have enjoyed looking through yours. You certainly seem to have had a wonderful holiday recently and saw some amazing sights with great photos to remember them by. I particularly liked the one of the Leopard lounging in the tree.
Well done with the Goldcrest photos, they are so difficult, I find, as they just never stop still...well not for me anyway ;)
Hi ShySongbird, I'm really pleased you enjoyed looking at my blog, being new to it, I wondered if anyone would be interested. Looking at your blog and the other peoples that I follow, they are all really interesting and I'm glad I started.
We were extremely lucky on holiday, firstly just for being able to go and secondly for the amount of things we saw, it was amazing.
Thanks
Al.
Unlucky with the Black-red Alan, maybe it will stay around if it was one, good luck with the migrants :-)
Hi Warren,
It was a little frustrating, it was too far away with not enough time to look for before work without being late!! Nevermind, I'll keep trying :-)
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