Rixton

My nephews Jospeh and Isaac, the next generation of birders when I have finished with them!
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Drove through Rixton on the way home this evening. Nothing much by the pool except a Whitethroat which decided to play hide and seek with me in a small bush. By the tip the usual collection of corvids and around 25 Lesser Black-backed Gulls plus a couple of Stock Doves with 2 Grey Herons on the tip pool. Up on Holly Bush Lane things livened up with a large mixed flock of finches and buntings all flitting around a potatoe field. With 40+ Linnets and roughly the same number of Goldfinches were 15 Greenfinches, 4 Corn Buntings and 2 Yellowhammers. Four Grey Partridges were also running along the road.

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This morning at HGF a juvenile Yellow Wagtail briefly appeared near Midhops - flitting through the 80 Lapwings present. This is the first Yellow Wag sighting for nearly 2 weeks and by far the latest sighting of one I have had here. Two juvenile Black-necked Grebes were also present and around 80 Swallows were feeding nr Midhops this evening. A quick mooch down Silver Lane tonight produced nothing other than two female Kestrels - one adult and one juvenile. The latter kept flitting around on the wires - waiting for me to get close and then moving off to the next wire. It keot this up for around 20 minutes!