Tuesday 19 March 2013

Spring refuses to arrive with a north east wind , but here it was still almost mild but elsewhere snow and ice and heavy rain, all this is making any migrants late and by now I would of expected to have recorded Chiffchaff on the patch but as yet there is one big no show.
Patch birding can be a hard task and today confirmed just that ,although it started well enough with a Tawny Owl calling at 5am
On the patch 2 pairs of Buzzard were soaring about and the female Kestrel was hunting.. Just 2 Meadow Pipit today both straight over northwards  and a Pied Wagtail was over as well.
There were however 65 plus Redwing and 10 Fieldfare which flew off north and a further 9 Fieldfare went over high to the north east.
 Stock Dove are still around in good numbers with 9 been seen today including a flock of 5 together.
Apart from a single Skylark I am afraid it was really dire, here"s hoping for better in the following days.