Thursday, 16 February 2023

Patch Birding. Spring is nearly here.

 An excellent walk around the local patch today with Nigel.  Again, as at the feeding station there was a great deal of bird activity and it is good to hear bird song again.  I was delighted to see the goldcrest in exactly the same spot agin for the third time in succession.  I really must take the camera but photographing it is going to be a challenge.  On the Horsefield we were both pleased to see that the linnets and skylarks have returned from the saltmarsh.  There were at least 6 singing male skylarks and and several small flocks of linnets.  The bullfinches were present again and we found three jays together.  We were both excited to have close views of a roe deer female curiously watching us from the plantation in the woodland burial ground.

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Skylark. (archive image)
Linnet on the Horsefield, 2020.

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