January 2013,
OK lets get it out of the way ,what a crap effort at a blog ,I ran out of steam ,so this year it"s not gonna happen .At the end of the year I had managed to find 91 species on the patch. Bird of the year came in late October in the form of a cracking Great Grey Shrike .
So this year I will keep the blog updated with all the juicy bits and keep you updated with the total species count as we go.
So the frst thing this morning was it was not raining although there is still plenty of floodwater and the ground is still saturated. In truth it was pretty quiet with a few hightlights 7 Meadow Pipits is a higher count than of recently, and 25 plyus Skylarks is the high count of the winter so far.
There has been good numbers of winter thrushes this year ,so 100 plus Fieldfare and 50 plus Redwing was not unexpected although the former has numbered 600 plus in the last few days.
The only other highlight was a flock of 150 plus Black Headed Gull with 10 Common Gull on floodwater and at least 1000 Starling around Town Street Farm.
At he end of the walk we had managed (that is Willow my faithful bird dog and myself), to find 35 species ,not bad really ,heres to a great new year.