Pittswood Birds

Welcome to Autumn! The first taste of Autumnal weather arrived this morning, light rain was followed by torrential rain, then strong and blustery winds. Needless to say it wasn't too good for patch watching, however it did stop raining once I got home from work, so I decided to pay a visit to the lakes, maybe something was sheltering from the elements there. I was disappointed though, as only a GREY HERON, two MALLARDS and a few MOORHEN were seen.

I quickly moved on, as the strong wind made it impossible to hear anything in the Scrubby Woods, and made my way over to the Tree Nursery and Migrant Alley, both these places were full of overflying SWALLOWS and HOUSE MARTINS, a couple of hundred birds were whizzing around, mostly Swallows.

Migrant Alley looked Autumnal, as a flock of around 150 STARLINGS fed out in the sheep pasture, along with 100 or so JACKDAWS and ROOKS, a LESSER BLACK BACKED GULL went over, as did a few HERRING GULLS, and the KESTREL was seen up on the adjacent Greenhouse rooves, a CHIFFCHAFF was the only warbler seen, it fed in the tall hedge behind my sky watching seat, but apart from that it was a very subdued visit.

I was home by 16:00hrs, and spent 40 minutes in my garden shed, the sun had just started to break though allowing for some garden bird photography  :-)

GREAT TIT

CHAFFINCH

Chaffinch

I also took some more Blue Tit and Nuthatch photo's, but i'll save them for tomorrows blog  :-)