Willey; Ring Ouzel - I spent some time this morning watching my feed station area and thick hedges around the church area. There was clearly a fall of Blackbirds last night (another spinney earlier held a good number and later I heard that Holme in Norfolk had a fall too), there were several in the hedge and moving in to the church yard to eat the Yew berries, plus a few Redwings. After a while of watching the coming and goings of Thrushes a ‘blackbird’ flew Up on to the hedge top, it seemed different and instinctively I raised my binoculars to view, it was a lovely female Ring Ouzel, it flew in to the church yard Yew Tree, after 10mins or so I saw it flew back in to the hedge and out of view. A great surprise and my first local patch record.
Stanford Reservoir; a look here in the afternoon, plenty of Redwing and Fieldfare were in the bushes. Four Snipe flew over and landed somewhere further down. The Black-tailed Godwit was on the point. All the usual birds were around, maybe more Wigeon, Tufted Duck and Goldeneye had arrived. A Kingfisher zipped by with a small fish and a Grey Wagtail flew passed calling.
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