A light early east wind switched to the west and strengthened mid morning. High cloud with some sunny spells and a few short showers.
Vis
Woodpigeon 100 south
Rook 1 south
Carrion Crow 45 south in dribs and drabs
Chaffinch 7 south
Small finch sp, possibly Goldfinch or Linnet, 20 west in a loose flock
Lesser Redpoll 5
Reed Bunting 2
Species of note present:
Snipe 1
Water Rail 3
Siskin 3 feeding in alders
Goldcrest 3
Bullfinch 3
Grey Wagtail 2 (including the recently ringed one)
Middleton Nature Reserve
Model Boat Pond
Mute Swan 2 ad and 5 imms (a 6th immature seen wandering near the road)
Little Grebe 1
Moorhen 5
Coot 1
Also from Middleton, ringing report from John:
Cold start this morning at Middleton, with heavy ground frost and temperature close to freezing when I arrived.
Only nineteen birds caught which comprised;
Lesser Redpoll x4
Goldcrest x4
Cettis Warbler x3 (2 new)
Wren x3
Chiffchaff x1
Chaffinch x1
Blackbird x1
Great Tit x1
Blue Tit x1
The first Brent Geese this winter - by this time the sun was shining again |