Now that it's November it is time for me to resume wandering the lesser visited square kilometres within my 10k Circle of interest. The random(ish) finger pointed to Tutnall in the north-west sector. I had previously visited just once, in June 2025, so I was keen to get in a winter visit.
It has to be said that this plan of campaign is very unlikely to produce any unusual birds, but this particular square did provide some nice views.
The landscape was dominated by a short grassy sward upon which several herds of cattle grazed. Searching for birds in the more arboreal landscape towards the village was hampered by a fresh breeze and incessant road noise from the A448 dual carriageway.
The most obvious birds were corvids and pigeons, the former including a pair of Ravens and the latter a flock of 24 Stock Doves. Slightly less expected was a group of mainly large gulls resting in one of the fields.
I hadn't opted to take my scope, but as far as I could tell they were mainly Lesser Black-backed Gulls plus a few Herring Gulls.
My total species count was just 29 in two hours. Pretty typical I'm afraid.
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