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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