With a light south westerly
wind I decided to go to Dean’s Lane to see if there was any visible
migration. I was there just over an hour
but migration was slow with just a few Redwing and Starling moving. I also saw a couple of Great Spotted
Woodpeckers and ten Brambling feeding in trees on the slope of Beacon Hill.
At 09:15 there appeared to be
nothing moving and so I went to Beacon Hill, where I saw very little the best
being another fourteen Redwing.
Swithland Reservoir proved to
be a little better as I counted twenty-two Mandarin and found two Pintail on
the south side. The Mandarin count was
by the highest I had ever seen at this site, the previous maximum being just
three birds. On the north side there
were three Goldeneye and a Buzzard flew over and I watched a party of
Cormorants feeding. It is quite easy to
see why fisherman hate the Cormorant as the twelve birds must have caught over
fifty reasonable size fish whilst I was observing them and were successful
almost every time.
Having returned home Dave
called to say he had a large party of thrushes near Great Glen and being just a
few miles away I decided to go and have a look.
When I arrived some of the birds were in flight and it wasn’t too long
before they all decided to fly off to the south. Most were Fieldfare, which I estimated at one
hundred with fewer Redwing. There was
also a Little Owl calling but I couldn’t locate it.
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