Sunday 17 February 2013

Walk to Wallingford

Sunny, 8º, light SE.

A walk in to Wallingford today along the Bunk Line and through Winterbrook, a pleasant day but still muddy and wet everywhere.
The highlight of the day was a Jack Snipe flushed from a flooded field next to Green lane, typical of that species low direct and silent flight when flushed, flew around one hundred metres up the field and disappeared near the hedgerow adjacent to the railway, also five Lapwing in the same field.

A flock of roughly two hundred Fieldfare and a couple of Redwing at Winterbrook and one hundred plus Pied Wagtail at Cholsey SF, also two Song Thrush there and ten Black-headed Gull.
The Thames still high and the banks are still not walkable in most places and a partially sunken boat near the mouth of Bradford Brook. A lot of Black-headed Gull feeding on bread by Wallingford Bridge.

As I was typing this out late afternoon I noticed a Siskin feeding on one of the nut feeders in the garden, could not get a photo as the sun was shining directly in to my windows at that time of day. The Pheasant still turning up for a late afternoon feed.

Casualty of the floods?
The Thames path at Wallingford leading to Benson
 

Black-headed Gulls at Wallingford Bridge

Lapwings

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