Pittswood Birds

With little wind and some good sunny spells, it was a short but enjoyable patch visit this afternoon. I initially went over to the Tree Nursery, the long vegetation and wet ground looks so good for a Snipe, but none were found here, I did flush up a few REDWING, BLACKBIRDS and SONGTHRUSHES, as well as a MEADOW PIPIT, but it was the overflying GREY WAGTAIL (64) that proved of most interest, as it was the first this month  :-)

I quickly made my way over to the Lakes, where I immediately heard, then saw, 2 KINGFISHERS chasing about, they were quickly followed by a sighting of this CORMORANT, which I got a photo of by trying to focus between all the branches in the way :-)

Probably my best Cormorant photo yet, which shows how poor the others must be  :-)

A look around the lakes provided 14 MALLARD and a few MOORHEN but no Goosander today! The adjacent Scrubby Woods were quickly looked over, here 3 GOLDCRESTS, a COAL TIT, and 2 BULLFINCH were about the best of it.

Moving on to the now darkening Wet Woods, I found a TREECREEPER with another 2 Goldcrests, as well as a couple of GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKERS. With little daylight left, I made my way back over to the Tree Nursery, where it was good to see 3 KESTRELS hunting together, a couple of GREEN WOODPECKERS flew about from shrub to shrub, two more Meadow Pipits were seen, one of which perched up for a photo, as did one of the Kestrels, but it was all too dark by now, making for grainy images, but its better than nothing  :-)

Meadow Pipit in the dying light

Meadow Pipit

Kestrel

Kestrel