Plot Neet. Doe Park.

 

                                 Plenty small gulls

                                   Several Pied Wagtails

                                Dunnock

                                    Good number of Canada Geese

                                Alive with passerines      Blackbirds

                                    Mistle Thrush

                                    Fieldfare

                                    All distant photos in the drizzle

                                      Lots of Bullfinch

                                    Redwing and Bullfinch

                                Female and male Bullfinch

                                    Greenfinch, becoming a rarity

                 A wet and windy morning with a moderate S>3 bringing drizzle and very dark clouds at 8 degrees.                                                                                                                                                                     A visit to Doe Park found nothing special on the water with 83 Canada, several Mallard and around 150 small gulls with only 3 LBBs present. A search through the Black Headed failed to turn up a Med gull.                                                                                                                                                                    Just a Sparrowhawk and Buzzard in the sky so turned my attention to the bushes which were alive with small passerines all busy feeding and moving around the bushes and small trees. Good numbers of Bullfinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch and Chaffinch as well as Reed Bunting and Goldcrests.                     On the thrush scene there were double figures of Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Redwing and Fieldfare as well as 12 Pied Wagtail on the reservoir side but no white among them.                                              A very entertaining morning, plus a lady dog walker said there was a bird stood by the water the other day just like a Heron but completely bright white which has got to have been an Egret sp.                            The nearby Thornton fields had plenty gulls but mostly small and nothing outstanding. Just 8 Herring and about 15 LBBs.                                                                                                                                    Its like world war 3 at the moment up here so Im trying to type this with 2 shivering dogs on my knee.                                                                                                                                                                 BS