Happy New Year!
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| Rather different weather from the blue skies of last week's Work Party |
Having listened to the weather forecast for the week, the options seemed to be sunny with gale force winds or mild & gloomy with light winds. So I chose today. Gloomy it certainly was. Even at 1.30 the light levels were poor but there did seem to be some birds flitting about and I soon had a page full of notes:
Birds:
SC209693 male Blackbird; Grey Heron flying over
SC209694 ( path junction) 2 x Great Tit;
SC209694 ( hide) male and female Blackbird; 2 x Great Tit; male Chaffinch; Goldfinch; Wren heard but not seen; Robin; male Pheasant; 2 x Wood Pigeon;
SC208694 ( Willows) 3 x Chaffinch; Great Tit; female Blackbird; Blue Tit; 10 x Goldfinch
SC208694 ( compost) Blackbird; Wren; 2 x Goldcrest;
SC208694 ( boardwalk) Robin; 2 x Blue Tit; male Blackbird; Ring Tail Hen Harrier flying over low ;
SC209694 ( gorse boundary) Great Tit; Redwing
SC208694 ( reed bed) Water Rail heard on 2 occasions but not seen
SC210694 Hooded Crow sitting on the roof of Old School House, next door
Other:
SC208694 Fungi continue to proliferate on the compost heap nearest the dam. I have taken one specimen to try to identify it from a spore print.
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| fungi growing on the compost heap |
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| notice how the gills continue down the stem of the toadstool, rather different from those we buy in supermarkets |
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| one of several chaffinches |
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| here's another |
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| Great Tit |
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| January view from the bird hide |
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| and looking in the other direction |
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| Great Tit across the pond |
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| Two Wood Pigeons on the church boundary |
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| Blackbird across the pond |
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| looking back along the boardwalk |
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| Robin with attitude |
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| wetlands living up to its name |
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| a splash of winter colour near the bench. |
15 species of bird is not a bad start for 2018 though!
