Sunday, 3 March 2024

3rd March - Frost -2C last night. sunny am, patchy cloud pm, light W, 9C

No rain today - yet!! (2100h)

Lilbourne Meadows; afternoon.
c300 Wigeon, c15 Shoveler, c20 Gadwall, c 50 Teal, 2 Little Grebe, a Little Egret.
c250 Golden Plover circling very high, gaining height and lost from view.

Four noisy Carrion Crows in an Oak tree draw my attention, in the tree a Raven.  It was pulling off dead/rotten bark from branches.  It eventually flew off east towards the wind turbines with a beak full.

A Mink was seen along the Clifton brook (BCN WT informed).

DIRFT;
An Oystercatcher, 37 Lapwings, a few Wigeon and Teal.

Stanford-on-Avon.
The Cattle egret was present in the monument field area again, among the Sheep.

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