The morning started with a huge kerfuffle just after daybreak as the local male sparrowhawk made an appearance at the bird feeders. He bounced around making passes and darts through the rambling rose but the spadgers successfully retreated into the evergreens where their shoutings of defiance and panic were misinterpreted by the spadgers across the railway line as come-hither noises and they, too, dived for cover as quickly as they arrived. (I have a Pyracantha growing through the rose and a viburnum just behind.) The sparrowhawk gave up after five minutes or so and headed off for better pickings round the railway station. I muttered rude things throughout as the sun was directly ahead at head height so I had to squint to watch the proceedings and photos were out of the question.
It was a busy old day thereafter so by mid-afternoon I made sure to refill all the feeders, the weather's looking dodgy for tomorrow.
- Black-headed gull 1 overhead
- Blackbird 1
- Blue tit 1
- Collared dove 2
- Feral pigeon 1
- Great tit 2
- House sparrow 16
- Jackdaw 1
- Robin 1
- Rook 1
- Sparrowhawk 1
- Starling 3
- Woodpigeon 1
The gulls were out in force on the school playing field. A fox came out to sun itself by the netball pitch but slunk off after ten minutes, fed up of the attentions of magpies and jackdaws.
- Black-headed gull 45
- Common gull 2
- Feral pigeon 1
- Herring gull 7
- Jackdaw 16
- Lesser black-back 4
- Magpie 15
- Rook 3
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