Before I get to today's effort, I'll just mention that yesterday I visited a raised area of pseudo-parkland in Redditch between Woodrow and Greenlands. The views across the Greenlands suburb were quite nice, but I barely troubled the scorers. The most noteworthy sight was probably a count of about 70 Goldfinches.
Today the weather decided to revert to cloudy and grey as Dave and I met for another bash at Morton Bagot.
We got off to a decent start when a rather small immature Peregrine flew by, giving us brief palpitations before we discarded the possibility of it being a Merlin. After that it was all a bit quiet. We established that there were definitely two pairs of Stonechats on site, and estimated 50 Linnets with a smaller number of Redpolls in the new growth forest which now occupies the ridge field.
The flash field was being disturbed by a quad-bike in an adjacent field, so we only saw 18 Teal plus 14 Mallard on small pool currently occupying the HOEF scrape field. Fieldfares, Redwings, and Siskins were assessed as totalling 40, 50, and 30 respectively. Mind you our ability to count was tested when a flock of Lapwings circled in the distance. We decided on 62, but I took a photo to count the dots later.
It turned out that, on zooming in, there were at least 85 birds in this shot. So not only can we not find rare birds, we can't count either.
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