Friday 11 January 2013

The cold weather has not arrived as forcast, but it supposed to arrive over the weekend ,so it should provide a few new birds if there is any cold weather movement. The big thing at the moment is the amount of birdsong and the complete absence of winter thrush"s, they were really pentiful not but two weeks ago, they must of moved on having used all local food supplies.
Anyhow the garden came up with a Lesser Redpoll on the feeders again ( yesterday there were 2 along with a Coal Tit but no sign of the latter today), and plenty of the usual suspects.
 The patch is still generally quiet , but there was a flock of at least 2700 Starling and 575 plus Lesser Black Backed Gulls with Common(10 plus), Black Headed (50 plus) and Herring Gulls (20 plus) on the wet pasture.There was a flock of 11 Meadow Pipits with a flock of 17 plus Skylark nearby.
A year tick came in the form of a female Yellowhammer ,not such a common bird on the patch.The rest of the hightlights were Greater Spotted Woodpecker, male Kestrel, Buzzard, just 4 Redwing, 1 Fieldfare and a very grey continental Song Thrush, no doubt he or she has flown over here from northern climes .
The patch count now stands at 49.