Monday, 1 January 2018

1st Jan 2019 - cloudy/light rain am, sunny spells pm, 6C, light SW

Welcome to more of my obs - I hope you find them of interest.  Feel free to comment share any of your obs using the comments option.

Willey; the small flock of Chaffinch and Yellowhammers is still on the stubble fields to the west, a Reed Bunting was with them too.  The local Rooks were busy feeding first thing on the pasture next to their rookery, many also attending to their nests.  A morning check of the feed station produced all the usual visitors, including the Moorhen, 6 Tree Sparrows today. . Late afternoon a Green Woodpecker was heard calling.

Monks Kirby; The Chaffinch flock was present, a little dispersed today, at least 50 though, plus Yellowhammers, Goldfinch and 1 Brambling.

Stanford Reservoir; at the moment there are bird 'scarers' on some adjacent fields causing loud 'bangs' which is definitely causing some disturbance to the birds, probably keeping the numbers down.  I was checking through the Grey Lag Goose flock in case a Pink-Foot had dropped in when I spotted 4 Egyptian Geese, it looked like a family group. As expected at next set of 'bangs' they flew off - 4 were later reported flying over Draycote Water, the time would have been right for it to have been these birds after leaving here.

Otherwise a pleasant afternoon with the usual birds seen.  I counted thre Coot which have now increased to 185.


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