Having reported continued poor weather, Tuesday saw a change for the better, with blue skies and temperatures racing into double figures (just!)
Consequently, I was out at 6.00am listening to birds in the gloom. The undoubted highlight was coming across a party of 25+ siskins on Ash Valley Golf Course adjacent to the exit of the footpath from Alder Wood. These were busily feeding in.... alders. A great sight, not often recorded this winter. A few poor shots of birds feeding, shown here (photos 1,2 and 4).
Also: 6+ drumming great spotted woodpeckers, 5 linnets near the 6th fairway, several fieldfares and redwings and all the expected birds singing, i.e. robin, great tit, dunnock, blackbird, song thrush, chaffinch, greenfinch and yellowhammer. 4 skylarks were heard and seen near the River Ash.
Other photos show the sunrise at Westland Green and1 of the golf course linnets.
Consequently, I was out at 6.00am listening to birds in the gloom. The undoubted highlight was coming across a party of 25+ siskins on Ash Valley Golf Course adjacent to the exit of the footpath from Alder Wood. These were busily feeding in.... alders. A great sight, not often recorded this winter. A few poor shots of birds feeding, shown here (photos 1,2 and 4).
Also: 6+ drumming great spotted woodpeckers, 5 linnets near the 6th fairway, several fieldfares and redwings and all the expected birds singing, i.e. robin, great tit, dunnock, blackbird, song thrush, chaffinch, greenfinch and yellowhammer. 4 skylarks were heard and seen near the River Ash.
Other photos show the sunrise at Westland Green and1 of the golf course linnets.
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