Friday 29 March 2013

The great spring continues with a bone chilling easterly today ,although the sun tried to make a brief sortie at one point.
The spring migration is so slow that it has hardly started here , pathetic is a word to describe it .
A flock of 24 Fieldfare moving east provided hope of something happening but that was soon shown not to be happening. There were 7 Skylark about the fields and the Meadow Pipit flock was around the 60 plus mark with 3 other over flying northward migrants .
I also saw a flock of 33 Black HeadedGulls with 3 Common Gulls which were soaring very high northwards ,maybe migrants ? .
There was a hunting Kestrel over one of the field ditches and a couple of Buzzards were soaring about , also a flock of 55 Woodpigeon were feeding in one of the sheep fields . Perhaps the most unusual bird was a Jay a bird we do not see here until the Autumn , although this is the second spring bird this year.
It can only get better , but when ?