As usual the weather is horrific, howling winds driving rain ,the usual really. The flood waters have risen once again after falling over the last few days.
As the title says there were good numbers of winter Thrushes with Redwing 350 plus and Fieldfares supporting with 300 plus. A great sight . Also on the sodden pastures were 200 plus Starling . Theses were the birds that dominated with small passerines keeping their heads down in the howling winds.
The numbers of Skylarks were 7 and there were 8 Meadow Pipits in the long grass .
Over the flood waters were 135 plus Black Headed Gulls and a loose flock of 40 plus Wigeon flew downriver .
On the large puddles in the fields were 10 plus Pied Wagtails and in the hedges were a flock of 50 plus Woodpigeon with 3 Stock Doves tagging along.
It was nice to see a flock of 10 Goldfinches overhead .We appear to be a good few species down on this time last year, I suppose that is the consequence of this mild wet winter.
