On the way back from Pennington Flash I just missed the 25 home so I got the 250 and got home via Lostock Park and the relict cornfield. I thought I'd see if any of the whitethroats had arrived yet, assuming they're coming at all.
The good news is that I found one doing its flight call from the brambles by the fence before the rain started to take itself seriously.
A bonus was the buzzard being mobbed by a carrion crow and four lesser black-backs. It's a regular target for the crows, the gulls joining in so persistently suggests that they have, as I suspected, got nests on the roofs of the industrial units. Elsewhere a pair of carrion crows were busy with their display flying and croaky canoodlings. We don't give enough credit to the romantic souls of crows.
- Blackbird 3, 2 singing
- Buzzard 1
- Carrion crow 3
- Chaffinch 1 singing
- Chiffchaff 1 singing
- Goldfinch 11, 2 singing
- Greenfinch 1
- House sparrow 3
- Lesser black-back 5
- Long-tailed tit 1
- Magpie 3
- Mistle thrush 2
- Robin 1 singing
- Song thrush 1 singing
- Whitethroat 1 singing
- Woodpigeon 8
- Wren 1 singing
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