The fields around Winwick and HGF have started to drop and I am looking forward to my autumn views of the local Grey Partridge population - I wonder how they have fared? This evening one of these harvested fields produced a nice bonus. Off Highfield Lane in what was yesterday a field of wheat I noticed a flock of 80+ little brown jobs nr the phone mast. Expecting Linnets or Goldfinches I got my scope out to find they were all Greenfinches bar two Chaffinches. I think this is the largest flock of Greenfinches I have seen around here - they perched up nicely in the top of a hawthorn hedge when they weren't feeding on spilled seed.
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At HGF this morning 6 additional Mute Swans joined the resident two and a pair of Teal also dropped in. A Buzzard flapped around nr Myddleton Farm - shortly after I saw a second one perched on the usual fenceline on Waterworks Lane. In the now ploughed field opposite the kennels were five herons and around 70 Lapwings, 17 Black-headed Gulls and the usual large group of corvids. A few Swifts tonight and a flock of 44 Lesser Black-backed Gulls heading towards the Mersey. Today the day had an autumn feel about it!
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