Friday 17 November 2017

Friday November 17

This morning, a cold but sunny one, I took Richard B round the patch.

Having assured him we would see a Brambling, I found that the finch flock was rather sparse and contained no Bramblings.

We saw plenty of Redwings and Fieldfares, one of the latter posing quite nicely.

Fieldfare
The flash field contained a few Teal, five Wigeon, two Shovelers, a Green Sandpiper and a few Snipe. The only birds to come close to taking me by surprise were a flying Mute Swan (the first since the juvenile disappeared in the summer), and the pair of Stonechats, which I had thought had gone.

You just can't rely on birds to appear to order.

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