The Breeding Season

As from now until the end of the breeding season birds of a sensitive nature will be omitted from this blog due to a small percentage of undesirables who take their pleasure from egg collecting, nest destroying and the killing and trapping of birds.
Reports of non breeding birds moving through the area will still be published. BS
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The Dailies Dash

Sunshine beyond Listers Mill chimney
Flocks of Starlings
The steep climb back
Plenty Common gulls >NE

A mixed bag of weather today with a bit of sunshine, bit of rain and drizzle and a bit of snow with a cold NE>4.
A dinner time dash down the Dailie Fields was 15 mins well spent and although it was pretty quiet it cleared my head from the old motor I was welding up for a customer that was wanting to get another years MOT out of his car. The problem is he,ll be back next year with it saying the same.
Anyway, a Green Woodpecker was my first bird in the distant doing its undulating flight from bush to bush whilst 4 Linnet were again around the gorse bush area. Common gulls were on the move with 38 over >NE into the wind in the 15 minutes that I was down there.
Large flocks of Starling were feeding in the fields flying up into the trees when disturbed and a Robin was singing its heart out from a holly bush, all in all a rushed but pleasant lunch break.

Common gull........................38 >NE
Green Woodpecker.............1
Linnet....................................4
Robin.....................................3
Starling................................c 200
Magpie..................................11
Woodpigeon.........................26
Stock dove.............................6
+ usual corvids
BS
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