Thursday, 1 January 2015

January 1st

Overcast, cool-cold, SW-SSW F1-2 gusting 4-5

Heres a change, not just the year, but the weather.  Gloomy overcast gloom.  Still, you cant have winter birds without winter weather.

So, first day out, whats on the list...

Redwing, Fieldfare, Blue Tit, Crow, Robin, Magpie, Green Woodpecker, Blackbird, Collared Dove, Kestrel, Woodpigeon, Chaffinch, Feral Pigeon, Wren, Rook, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Chiffchaff, Bullfinch, Goldcrest, Great Tit, Song Thrush, Long Tail Tit, Coal Tit.

On the pits....those waters arent just calm....its iced up somewhat.  Interestingly when I was here the other day, frosty, no ice on the pools.  No frost today and ice is beginning to build up nicely.  Though not too nicely if you are expecting a nice splashdown and end up skidding around like 3 Mallards did.

Dont steer toward the calmer waters!!

Out on the water....and ice...today:

2 Mute Swan, 4 Mallard, 41 Coot, 25 Tufted Duck, 39 Gadwall, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Pochard, 9 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 45 Greylag Goose, 25 Black Headed Gull, 2 Herring Gull, 2 Water Rail, 1 Little Egret, 4 Shoveler.

These Black Headed Gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus
stood around on the ice for a while.  Thinking perhaps?

On the way back from the far pit I cam across a non water bird out on the ice....

Carrion Crow, Corvus corone

I do have to say that whenever I think of the Crows latin name it amuses me as I have always thought it sounded like, quite appropriately, The Godfathers surname...Corleone.  Sinister indeed!

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