It's been a difficult week. My wings have been clipped by a tummy bug, and latterly by Lyn spraining her thumb. It has left me tied to the house more than would normally be the case. However, this morning I was able to sneak off to the patch for an hour or so.
A lovely sunny morning with a very light north-westerly breeze. I opted to park at the church and do a shortened circuit.
On the pool I found a few geese, a couple of Tufted Ducks, and the first
Little Grebe of the year.
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| Little Grebe |
The other feature of the morning was corvids, lots of them.
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| Corvid willow |
Most were Jackdaws, but there were significant numbers of Rooks and Carrion Crows. I headed for the flash field which contained 25 Lapwings, a Green Sandpiper, three Wigeon, 25 Teal, 50 Black-headed Gulls, and a Common Gull.
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| Common Gull |
The Common Gull was in second-summer plumage and so was not the adult seen here in early February.
Finally, an update on the colour-ringed Mute Swan. It had been ringed at Arrow Valley Lake in January 2014. So not an especially riveting recovery, a movement of about five miles in three years.
Sorry to hear you and Lyn not been too well. Hope you are fit again and Lyn soon gets over the sprained thumb, ouch, not nice. Yes, it has been corvid central here over the weekend.
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