Walk round the smell was ok but nothing to get excited about, in fact less than what is normally around this time of the year. Thats the birds and not the smell. I suppose the best was a flock of 30 GOLDFINCH that had taken to a high oak and where calling to each other none stop. CHAFFINCH 2, L-T-TIT, BLUE and GREAT TIT. BLACKBIRD only two.
Links Hill: About 30 BHG and 4 MED GULS with our usual colour ringed bird but the best was the 5 COMMON GULLS that where at rest.
In view of the governments requirement to stay local, took a walk to South Pier. Lowestoft. So not much to go on about. Except for one of a pair of TURNSTONE that has found what it is like to get tangled in fishing line. What was odd was that it was not sea fishing gear. But fresh water gear. The thing is the bird was impaled by a hook.
A walk through to Loathingland Lake, nothing much out of the ordinary but added to the year list. But always good to catch up with, PINTAIL, SHOVELORE, COOT, WIGEON, GADWALL, MOORHEN, and my first STARLINGS for the year. Where have they all gone.
North Dene's: The surprise was the eight OYSTERCATCHER but also a single STOCK DOVE.
So here we go again, but it doesn't get any easier. The age of trekking is proving more difficult year on year. But we will still be out there in the wild, in the weather and watching out for feathered friends. Because I have still not lost my get up and go, to see the unusual and find the unmissable.
Todays walk brought in 30 species with the best being a KINGFISHER at Oulton Broad. But in real terms the best will be the two GREAT WHITE EGERET which when you think I saw my first in 1964 makes us all understand how thins have changed.
But the KESTREL below took a real fancy to a rodent beside the track, which did not stay alive for long. I also had a fly over SNIPE and a flock of BEARDED READLING on Horseshoe corner.
