Well with a forecast of dry I suppose I should have known it would rain....thankfully it was relatively short and not too heavy though I did shelter for a while....
So....Autumn is pushing on....with the first flush of waders already passed us by with short stopovers....though nothing at Whetsted today....
Early Autumn means.....
...field mushrooms....nice....
Unsure when this tree came down by the entrance gate to the quarry area.....
I don't think the workmen could have been in for a while...all that's left on the concrete apron area is a couple of piles of earth...
….and the puddles area has returned to green now that they have stopped trashing it...
The fields at the south-eastern end of the site have been left this year....and are starting to look interesting.....if left alone they could become good winter feeding sites for finches...
One thing they haven't left is the ditches.....though this is the first time that the ditches along the site have been cleared rather than just the ones further west....
A few Black-headed Gulls have returned to Middle Pit and includes a few immatures...
Although it stopped raining it continued to threaten further south and west...
The 'unusually' hot weather has prompted early ripening of Blackberries and Sloes....hoping they will get fatter and juicier for some Sloe gin in a month or so....
Not a huge amount of bird activity on site really....Whitethroats, Blackcaps and Chiffchaffs made up the Summer migrants around....
A Mistle Thrush was noted by the paddocks.....an adult Wren was feeding a juvenile by Island Pit and a juvenile Moorhen was feeding with an adult on the small weedy pit next to West Pit...
A flock of around 30 or so Goldfinches was just west of the quarry area....a Buzzard near by....40 Mallards flew over heading east.....a Nuthatch was calling by the entrance gate....
Hi Graham I was walking at the Pits nearly 2 weeks ago and that tree was down then ... also noticed the clearing of the ditches - there was a JCB which had obviously come in on the road at the other end of the pits furthest away from the entrance gate with the tree down. I just hope it's too late in the season to have caused harm to any birdlife. The blackberries around the site are delicious :-)
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