More Rain, More Geese.

Moderate to light rain, 10°, light SW.

Another thoroughly wet day and the geese numbers appear to be building up in fields along the Bunk line with the flock now joined by 60 – 70 Greylag Geese.

7 Grey Heron in the area and 6 Common Snipe flew over.

Also Swallow, House Martin, Meadow Pipit, Reed Bunting, Yellowhammer, Chiffchaff, Black-headed Gull, Lesser Blackback Gull, 100+ Starling, Blackcap etc. Per Alan.

Videos courtesy Alan Dawson ↕

Nice weather for Ducks…………and Geese

Almost constant light to moderate rain, 13°, breezy ENE.

A wildfowl day along the Bunk line/Green lane area today with 41 Egyptian Geese and 26 Mallard in a field until spooked by a dog walker that left just 4 geese present.

And 24 Greylag Geese (16 & 8) flew over and a lot more Mallard flying around.

Other than that there was a small passage of Swallow and House Martin moving thru, totalling around 60 birds.

5 Chiffchaff, 20+ Meadow Pipit, 10 Yellowhammer and a single Reed Bunting also noted.

Alan out this afternoon and the Egyptian Geese seem to be distributed over the area with 5 at the gravel pit and several more back in the original field along with several Mallard and a short while later 20+ Canada Geese arrived.

Butterflies: a single Red Admiral.

Camera not taken out today due to wet conditions! However Alan took his and grabbed this shot of Egyptian Geese on the gravel pit.

A good mix.

Cloudy, hazy, 10º, light NE. Quite a contrast from yesterday!

A little chilly and cloudy today and subsequently no butterflies on the wing, however 2 largish Thrush flocks around Lollingdon with a flock of c300 birds feeding in fields to the west of the hill and another of c200 birds in fields to the north. Mainly Fieldfare with small numbers of Redwing and Starlings, also a small number of Redwing in the trees on the north side of the hill.

Around 100 Lesser Blackback Gulls still loafing around the floods but nothing else with them.

Around 5 Red Kite soaring around over the hill and a single Kestrel in the vicinity, a couple of high flying Greylag Geese circled the hill twice as though looking for somewhere to set down and then flew off east,  and a singing Corn Bunting on the power lines over the fields.

A singing Chiffchaff in the trees on the north side and a Treecreeper close by, 3 Grey Partridge in one of the sheep fields and a Grey Heron also in the area.

 

 Chiffchaff

 Treecreeper

 Robin in full song

 Greylags

 Kestrel

 part of a Thrush flock

A Peacock butterfly photo taken in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire over the week end. The warm weather reached northern England also. Courtesy Tony Chaplin.