Sorry about the late update, but time seemed to have run away with me over the last few days. A quick update on a short walk on Thursday yielded The Snipe, but it flew off high to the north and I have not seen it since.
Saturday dawned with a cooler feel as the season should feel and a Mistle Thrush passed overhead south as soon as I left the house. Fieldfare passed west with 73 plus in two flocks and Redwing were in the hedges with 23 been seen ,there also were a few more Blackbirds than of late so maybe some winter visitors have arrived.
Meadow Pipits were passing over with a bit more vigour with 20 plus and Skylarks only numbered 3 and Pied Wagtails only 4 , so it was nice to see a small flock of 3 Bullfinch pass over , just ordinary ones not sadly the northern giants .
A call from high above again alerted me to a Golden Plover as it passed south west, again just a single bird maybe all the recent records relate to a single bird ? .A sign that winter is on its way was seen when a flock of 45 plus Lapwing landed on pasture ,the first flock of the season. The Reed Bunting was still in the usual place ,resting and feeding up before it moves on.
Starling continue to trickle south with 80 plus and the first Buzzard for a day or so was welcome .
So out early Sunday ahead of the big storm and it was very calm ,with no wind and a silent feel to the atmosphere .There were a few birds on the move and 100 plus Starling, 43 plus Fieldfare,17 Redwing over passing south to south west.
Meadow Pipits were more plentiful with 27 plus about and so were Pied Wagtail with 8 passing over or feeding in the fields , they were joined by 13 Skylark.
Another Mistle Thrush passed south and 5 Raven passed to the east calling as they went. Our bird of the day was a superb male Peregrine that went towards the river meadows .
3 Lapwing came in from high above the Malverns ,vis mig in action and a lesson that we should all keep an eye skywards at this time of year.
The best of the rest were a Buzzard, Stock Dove, a flock of 23 Black Headed Gulls and a small flock of 6 Linnet.
