Monday 22 January 2018

22nd - mostly sunny, 8C, light SW

All change - a finger of mild weather came up from the SW over night giving us a pleasant day.  On a nice day like today, noticeable that day light is lasting a little longer.

Stanford Reservoir; a quick look here produced a pair of Shelduck, I wonder if it was the pair that bred here last year.  A sign of seasons moving on as we don’t see them until they begin dispersing to possible breeding areas.  Pochard numbers are good at the moment, c200, but only 1 Goldeneye spotted.  A flock c500 lapwing flew over and settled on the adjacent fields, just in this phone photo there is 85 Lapwing.


A Raven was very vocal from the tree tops in the adjacent spinney.  A few Long-tailed tits and a Goldcrest were busy feeding.  A couple of Goldfinch were feeding on seed heads.

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