Having completed a tuition to which I walked, noting yellowhammers on the golf course, I set off home. Just outside the house where I had been I heard the unmistakable call of a Lesser Spotted woodpecker, a new bird for my parish records! It called twice as I entered the wood where I spent an inordinate amount of time checking every nuthatch, great, blue and coal tit that moved in the canopy. Nothing. Overhead, a group of 6 mandarin, 4 drakes, 2 duck. Also, a sparrowhawk skulking in a silver birch and a flushed woodcock. Not everyday you find mandarin when searching for Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers!!
Back on the lanes, plenty of bullfinches, more yellowhammers and I noted that the skylarks have begun to sing over the rough on the course. 2 buzzards and a kestrel completed the list as I arrived back home. A few poor quality shots here. I shall return to the private wood which I have permission to enter later this week for a further check.
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| nuthatch |
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| 2 drake flyby mandarins |
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| The whole party through dense woodland! |
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| Spot the sparrowhawk |
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