Longer walk: 09.03.10 Bury Green/Cradle End/Green Street

A long 2.5 hour walk this morning, beginning at Tesco's car park, and then off round the back of Bury Green TL460209 and then south west along the path to TL 444200 before taking the track to back to TL 443211 and then north and east to Green Street before picking up footpaths that eventually ended at Tesco's again.
In all 29 species with the two highlights being birds that you could associate with the sea! Firstly, in the distance, a line of 3 cormorants heading north east (shown here) and then a single common gull (shown below showing diagnostic large white mirrors on the primary feathers and greeny/yellow legs) in fields near Millfield Cottage. A singing yellowhammer is also depicted here.
Several jays were recorded, along with a minimum of 4 singing skylarks. 3 mallards flew over and a moorhen called from one of the many flooded ditches. At Cradle End a nuthatch called from the woods as I counted in excess of 25 yellowhammers in the hedgerow.
Near Bury Green an early morning common buzzard flew off as great spotted woodpeckers drummed and green woodpeckers called. A good wander in still cold conditions.