Saturday 26 March 2016

The sky was grey and overcast this morning, giving bouts of wetting drizzle that blew in on an increasingly strong SW wind.

In the poor conditions I didn't stay out long, just a couple of hours were spent out walking the paddocks and sheep pasture at Migrant Alley, ever hopeful of a spring migrant turning up. In the end none did, so it was back to looking through the 100 or so BLACK HEADED GULLS, where I found a few HERRING GULLS and 6 LESSER BLACK BACKED GULLS among them.

There were also a couple of dozen FIELDFARE feeding on the sheep pasture, along with 6 REDWING and 2 MISTLETHRUSH. I heard at least 5 MEADOW PIPITS call as they flew over and a SKYLARK was up singing over the area. An even scarcer songster for my patch was also singing, a YELLOWHAMMER, it joined in with a LINNET that also sang cheerily from the Greenhouse Grounds, where the KESTREL pair were again seen.

The only other notable flyover seen this morning were 3 CANADA GEESE.


ROBIN......an image from yesterday, when spring seemed to have arrived!

5 comments:

Marc Heath said...

A bit different today and if the forecast is correct, 50mph winds are due Mon/Tue.The migrants will get blown back!!

Lancashire and Lakeland Outback Adventure Wildlife Safaris said...

Think spring came yesterday and went away again today...brrr out there - and soaked!

Cheers

DaveyMan

Pete Woodruff said...

Nice Robin Warren, we have one resident in our garden and there about, we call him Bob, not very original but fits nicely, he's a delight and a brilliant little singer.

Warren Baker said...

I'm loosing the will to get out now guys :-(

Linda said...

Beautiful photo.