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A wild and windy night involving a couple of hailstorms gave way to a cool, grey windy day. The rambling rose is suddenly in full leaf and the spadgers are settled in for the day, the bird feeders being just a couple of feet away.
The tailless collared dove is showing a little more in the way of new tail feathers giving it a peculiar bat-like shape. It's being targeted by one of the magpies but even the loss of manoeuvrability without much of a tail it easily outpaces any magpie. A late afternoon influx of starlings was a bit of a surprise.
- Blackbird 1
- Blue Tit 1
- Coal Tit 1
- Collared Dove 3
- Dunnock 1
- Goldfinch 3
- Great Tit 2
- House Sparrow 12
- Jackdaw 8
- Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 overhead
- Magpie 1
- Starling 35
- Woodpigeon 3
I had a wander round the local patch in the gloom this lunchtime. It was fairly quiet of both birds and people. At least, it seemed quiet of birds but there was a lot lurking about quietly, particularly the flock of woodpigeons loafing about in the copse behind the school.
The pair of mistle thrushes have taken proprietorship of the avenue of poplars and one of the song thrushes was singing from the far corner of the park. Two chiffchaffs are holding singing territories, one at the back of the park and the other in the copse behind the school. A lot of the brambles have been flattened, I think there'll be limited nesting opportunities for whitethroats when they arrive.
The odd squeaking chirrup that had me looking up in the air for some unknown sort of wader turned out to be three jays sitting on the warehouse roof. Once they noticed I'd seen them they bounced over into the tree in front of me, gave a couple of soft chirrups and headed off towards the flyover.
- Blackbird 7
- Blue Tit 6
- Carrion Crow 2
- Chaffinch 1
- Chiffchaff 2
- Dunnock 1
- Feral Pigeon 33 overhead
- Goldfinch 14
- Great Tit 4
- Greenfinch 1
- Herring Gull 1 overhead
- House Sparrow 5
- Jay 3
- Magpie 8
- Mistle Thrush 2
- Robin 6
- Song Thrush 1
- Starling 3
- Woodpigeon 32
- Wren 4
Nicely done. Managed to get the campus egret yesterday, but doubt I could have written as engagingly about the experience.
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