November 16th

Visibility this morning was much better, a few hundred yards at least. The bird list grew accordingly to almost 40 species for the hour long visit. Once again REDPOLLS were the most common finch and a were heard throughout the hour, with a flock of 19 being seen by the barn. 10 PIED WAGTAILS were on the newly sown Lodge Field, as were 100's of corvids and 14 BLACK HEADED GULLS plus a few REED BUNTING and CHAFFINCH scattered around the edges.

A few corvids

On my way down to Lodge Field I checked on work that started yesterday on a new pond, the hole was already sizable, it'll be interesting to watch it's progress over the coming weeks.

Start of new pond!!

 GOLDCRESTS were again evident from several of the hedges as I wandered round and the one of the stubble fields had 22 SKYLARK, 12 LINNET and 8 MEADOW PIPITS that all took to the air as I made my way around the edge of the field. Back at the car park NUTHATCH and TREECREEPER were calling the the overflow held about 30 thrushes, a mixture of REDWINGS and FIELDFARES.

Redwing

A couple late bits of news were a Chiffchaff on Sunday seen by Stephen and yesterday Dad had 60+ Lapwings flying south and 2 Little Egrets flying along the stream.