After a heavy shower the weather settled down to mostly cloudy with a brief sunny interval. It was also blowing a south-westerly gale.
The birds on offer were pretty much the usual fare; a pair of
Stonechats, three
Wigeon, a few
Teal, five
Lapwings, and a
Little Egret in the flash field.
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| Little white blob (Egret) |
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| Wigeon |
In contrast to my last visit there were no gulls, apart from a single
Herring Gull, but we did hear a very clear "hweet" call several times which had to be a
Chiffchaff, the first in February here. The bird was somewhere in the depths of Stapenhill Wood but it was too much effort to go in to try to see it.
A
Peregrine was chasing corvids around in a half-hearted attempt to catch its lunch.
Three Roe Deer were unaware of our presence thanks to the gale force wind blowing from them towards us.
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| Roe Deer |
A flock of about 150
Redwings and a few
Fieldfares were on the horse paddocks, but they flew off as I started to unpack the tripod.
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