Pittswood Birds

After a bright-ish start to this afternoon, the rain moved in about three-thirty, putting an end to a very quiet 90 minutes on patch, - where have all the birds gone - not just the summer ones either!

A view across the Tree Nursery, with the Wet Woods in the back ground

A walk through the above Tree Nursery was had first off, it always looks so good for a passage migrant lurking among the shrubs and vegetation, but today not a thing was seen here apart from a lone MEADOW PIPIT which flew up and headed over to the Pub Field, which i went and scanned, finding at least another 20 Meadow Pipit out on the harrowed stubbles.

After the Pub Field I went to Migrant Alley, ever hopeful of a late Wheatear or maybe my first Stonechat of the year, alas no such goodies were found, but 2 GOLDFINCH were among 18 LINNETS that were feeding on Dandelion heads in one of the paddocks.

A sky watch from my usual seat for twenty minutes was good for HERRING GULLS and fewer BLACK HEADED GULLS, but just one PIED WAGTAIL was seen with those. A last ditch attempt at finding a new species for the month was had with a walk through the Greenhouse Grounds, where a KESTREL sat up on the rooves, but again it proved a frustrating time, the dozens of wrens usual seen here were down to two individuals, it was the same for the DUNNOCKS and BLACKBIRDS, things seem to be stuck in that gap that happens between the summer birds leaving and the winter birds arriving  :-)  Things will change as time ticks on though.......hiopefully !

Immature Gull, probably Herring

PLEASE NOTE: the next post will be on Friday evening  :-)