Friday 1 February 2013

With the pressure of work this week this is a two day update .The weather has been mild and very wet with the river in full flood again. The birds have been a bit samey really with flocks of 400 plus Fieldfare and 80 plus Redwing being noteworthy. The wintering Skylark flock has been seen with a max of 30 plus. Starling were numerous onThursday with 1500 plus over. The odd Meadow Pipits and Pied Wagtails on the fields were scratching a living .
 It was sad to see a Lapwing on its own with a broken wing .Theqwintering female Kestrel is still with us and 1or 2 Buzzards have floated over.
On the feeders we have had 4 Lesser Redpolls on the niger feeder.
 Just a small note that it was great to see so many Red Kites on the M40, with at least 20 being counted between Reading and Oxford, but the iceing on the cake was seeing one near Chedworth over the Gloucestershire county line. We usually see one or two on the patch around mid May