Had a quick trip to HGF today - set off in glorious sunshine and mild conditions, by the time I reached the pool there were grey skies and a very icy blast from the wind. A precursor of the Siberian weather due to hit us on Sunday night.
8 Linnets flew over the field calling. At the pool a Cormorant was circling over the water. Nothing much of interest - today's numbers were:
4 Moorhen
64 Coot
15 Tufted Duck
6 Pochard
75 Wigeon
1 Great Crested Grebe
2 Redshank
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
3 Common Gull
40+ Black-headed Gull
Walking back over the field a very pale Buzzard was seen distantly with a tail very much like Rough-legged Buzzard - it quickly disappeared past Midhops farm and I could not relocate it. A darker Common Buzzard also appeared. 2 Reed Buntings flushed from the field by the path and a Kestrel hovered over the field. Grotty light conditions but the scope was still superb.
Quick look at Waterworks Lane yielded 15+ Chaffinch, 2 Tree Sparrow, 2 Yellowhammer, 1 Reed Bunting, 3 Fieldfares and 3 Buzzards before a falconer looking for his lost Peregrine flushed everything.
Some more dodgy pics from a couple of weeks back - Little Owl and Pink-footed Geese on Plex Moss, Snow Bunting at Red Rocks, male and female Brambling in the garden on New Years day.
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