Thursday, 22 December 2016

21st Dec - mostly cloudy, light SW, 7C

This morning a Great-spotted Woodpecker chased another from the Long spinney over the fields to the west of the village in to the Perkins spinney making quite a lot of noise in the process.

During the afternoon i visited the area near Stanford where the Hen harrier has been spending some time, I did not find it.  However, there is still a good number of Tree Sparrows, Reed Bunting, Chaffinch and a few Yellowhammers still feeding on the game cover area.  A Sparrowhawk flew over and settled in the tree for a while.  A very pale Buzzard sat atop a thorn bush and another was seen flying nearby.  Later on as the sun was going down about 20 Gossander flew over on their way to the reservoir.

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