Today no Swallow sightings locally, probably find I will one or two over the coming days and that will be it, summer done!
Feeding around the ewes were 19 Pied Wagtails and a single Yellow Wagtail flew in to join them. To the west of the village six Mistle Thrushes flew over from Newnham Paddox to feed on pasture and a Kestrel called nearby. A cock Pheasant flew out of the Long Spinney to feed in the field and a Jay called aggressively in the spinney. A lone House Martin flew westward overhead.
A single Meadow Brown and Large White were on the wing.
I visited the local reservoir this afternoon. On the dam sat 3 Heron and a Little Egret sunning themselves. Hoping to take a photo I quickly found out my battery was flat - what a shame.
The number of winterning duck are slow to build this year, only 9 Wigeon could be found, but there were about 65 Pochard and 60 Tufted duck. The first Goldeneye for the winter should show soon. With have a good wintering population of Mute Swans, about 70.
High above about 20 House Martins were busy feeding, even with 10x, they were just dots in the sky. A Sparrowhawk flew lazy along the reservoir, clearly not hunting.
Still good number of Chiffchaffs and a few Blackcap were feeding busily in the bushes, these were with roving flocks of Long-tailed tits, at least 15, also Goldcrest and Treecreeper. Green and Great Spotted Woodpeckers were seen and in the finch line Linnet, Goldfinh and Bullfinch were present.
There were lots of Migrant Hawker and some Brwon Hawker dragonflies, although I did not see any butterflies.
A female Muntjac was walking along the path until it spied me, then dived for cover.
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