I covered most of my patch today, only leaving out the College Grounds as they get so busy during the week, none-the-less I recorded a reasonable total of 44 species, 6 of those were new for the November list.
The
COOT (
44) was the first of those, it was relocated at the Lakes after not showing yesterday, a couple of
BULLFINCH (
45) were heard in the adjacent Scrubby woods, where a
REDWING (
46) was also seen atop of an Oak tree.
It took an hour or so to find another species to add to the November list, but I at last found a
PHEASANT (
47) over at the Greenhouse Grounds, where I was again pleasantly surprised by two fly over SWALLOWS, making these the latest to be recorded on my patch. I continued to sky watch whilst I walked a circuit of Migrant Alley, and saw a small flock of 8
FIELDFARE (
48) fly through, shortly followed by a pair of
YELLOWHAMMERS (
49), a species that is rapidly only being recorded as a flyover here unfortunately :-(
As well as the monthly additions, the likes of BUZZARD, SPARROWHAWK, and KESTREL were seen today, plus SISKIN and LESSER REDPOLL, a pair of the latter were feeding in Alders at the Greenhouse Grounds. A chance meeting with a Weasel was a nice non-avian treat, it was encountered in the Greenhouse Copse as I waited fruitlessly for one of the two TREECREEPERS seen high up in an Oak, to get near enough to photograph :-)
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| GREEN WOODPECKER, looking a bit like the ''morning after'' :-) |
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| Weasel |
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14 comments:
Cracking shots Warren. You have done very well here.
Cheers Marc,
I'd always hoped of getting a Weasel to stay still long enough to photograph :-)
Excellent weasel pics Warren - not seen one for a few years now, nor a stoat, have had more sightings of otters recently - how mad is that!
Cheers
Davo
Davo,
Now an Otter I would like to photograph :-)
Warren ,
Brilliant shots of the Weasel in great light .
Cheers Greenie mate :-)
Great Weasel shots Warren and great light too :-)
Yes...the Weasel shots are all winners Warren, rare event, rare photographs.
Yeah...cracking set of photos again in this & the previous posts Warren.
Loving that Green Woodpecker Warren and those Weasel shots are gorgeous.
cute weasel
Hi Warren, Lovely photos of the Weasel. Llike others said you had beautiful light! Just to be irritating ;-) I'm curious to know how you knew it was a Weasel and not a Stoat? The Green Woodpecker did look a bit scruffy.
Songbird,
The Weasel is much Smaller than the Stoat. Weasels really are quite small :-)
Thanks Warren, I have a feeling then that it is always Stoats I see at Draycote.
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