Thursday 3 January 2013

A calm day, with a gentle southerly breeze really made it feel like late March rather than early January ,it should be cold but it is anything but, will we get a cold snap I wonder ? .
The birds were not exciting but a flock of 200 plus Redwing with 60 plus Fieldfare with a few Song Thrush and the odd Mistle Thrush were nice to see , it is wierd to think I saw them on the Finish/ Russian border last May.Talking of Russians there are still a good number of Starling knocking  about 350 plus by Town Street Farm.
At least 50 plus Lesser Black Backed Gulls over towards the estuary and the 3 Meadow Pipits are still wintering here, there numbers are much diminished from last wintertime.A female Bullfinch was nice, and the years first Greater Spotted Woodpecker was welcome. A female Kestrel was hunting low over the fields and one of the local Buzzards was about .4 Stock Doves made up the best of the rest.
A garden Coal Tit on the feeders was nice addition to the year patch list.The total patch list now stands at 37.
  With the weather looking set for the next few days  it may stay fairly static as far as the birds go, but who knows ?