Three Siskins over Dempsey Towers this morning, with Redwings calling in the darkness last night as the low cloud and mist finally began to break up.
Yesterday I did a circuit round the marsh, with a ringtail Hen Harrier distant in the mist, scaring the pants off Starlings and Skylarks as it quartered the outer marsh, and the usual assortment of Mipits, Skylark and Goldfinch in the Sandplant compound.
Few Golden Plovers passing high-ish.
Nels Hide had the Blackwit roost, half a dozen Ruff and four Curlew Sandpiper, amongst the wildfowl and Lapwings.
Another Curlew Sandpiper with Ruff on Crossens Outer, plenty of Little Egrets, and a juv Marsh Harrier out there too, when it wasn't getting Carrion Crow hassle.
And on a far more exotic note, thanks to Ron Jackson for sending me this link to his video footage from a recent trip to Brazil, ah, all those lovely Latin American birdies, takes me back...
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies...
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Flock of 30 Fieldfares flying south over Hightown
Dunes at lunchtime today.
Two Ring Necked Parakeets flying over the Coast Rd, heading toward Formby Hall Golf Club this afternoon.
I whizzed over to Moreton Common this afternoon for a sea wall walk to Meols and back.There was very little insect life on the wave wall apart from several Ruby Tiger caterpillars and a couple of Devil's Coach Horses.Then I turned onto the inland path for my return and suddenly right in front of me there was a rising Buzzard which in turn put up a flock of 60 Fieldfares. I casually watched it rise up in a few spirals on FLAT wings, then as it passed side on and I could see a 'neck', a pigeon-like head and a longish tail.I am certain that it was a Honey Buzzard, but not the pale individual that you saw recently. It slowly made its way inland (south) towards Upton/Greasby at around 50ft and I watched it until it disappeared into the mist at 3pm.
The drake Mandarin is still on the Hospital Lake, having finished its moult it's now looking rather handsome again!
John I have a couple of pics you need to look at. A quail dove photographed in a garden in Kew.
JD: Intriguing Chris....! E-mail address on the way...
Ring Necked Parakeet flying over the Coast Rd, heading toward Formby Hall Golf Club 4:30-5pm this afternoon