Saturday 5 May 2012

Slower

As it says above it was a little slower than the previous days , the northly wind having some affect, but at least it is dry and the flood waters seem to have gone down slightly. The hedgerows produced 6 WHITETHROAT, a massive 11 BLACKCAP, 4 CHIFFCHAFF, 1 WILLOW WARBLER, male YELLOWHAMMER, a BULLFINCH WASheard .Overhead passage was slower but still 30 plus SWALLOW5SWIFT, 5 HOUSE MARTIN and 3 YELLOW WAGTAILS passed northwards.The odds and sods were 2 RED LEGGED PARTRIDGE, 5 STOCK DOVE, just 2 PIED WAGTAILS in the top fields , GREATER SPOTTED WOODPECKER and 2 SKYLARK. It was a good day for BUZZARDS with 8 been seen including a mini kettle of 6 .A final bonus was a calling CURLEW from over the flood waters, hopefully they will recede  enough in time to allow a further attempt at nesting as no doubt their first go will have been washed away