Saturday 25 May 2013

Its been a few days since I walked the patch , so it was an early start to see what was about. A couple of hightlites when in the garden during the week were a calling Cuckoo and a few Swifts over.
Anyway back to today ,The first bird I saw was a a Sparrowhawk as it made a pass at a couple of Starlings.
In the hedges there were 7 Whitethroat, 6 Blackcap 4 Chffchaff, 1 singing Willow Warbler and it or another bird which looked like a Willow Warbler but sang with a Chiffchaff start but ended up as Willow Warbler,was this a Willow/Chaff  ?
Overhead we had 15 plus House Martins and 6 plus Swallow, also a Cormarant which headed upriver , also 3 Buzzard soaring.
It is nice to report up to 8 Linnets in the hedges , these birds are summer visitors here and dissappear in the  winter .A  Yellow wagtail called as it flew overhead.
The best of the rest were 7 Stock Dove, Kestrel, 5 Red Legged Partridge, a flock of 21 Lesser Black Backed Gull on a field, and at least 9 Skylark , 1 Greater Spotted Woodpecker and a Brown Hare