Wednesday 31 July
No rain yet! Still dry and calm with lovely sunshine to keep the area very warm. So, last day of the month and off dancing later in the morning, just time to pay a quick visit to the other end of the village starting at the horse fields in lower Workmans Lane where Woodpigeon, Magpie, Carrion Crow and Greenfinch recorded.
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| Buzzard Buteo buteo |
Back to the top of the lane and took a walk thought the common towards Hook and back along Hook Road. No sooner under way than a Blackbird then stopped to admire the distant, resting Buzzard. On towards the footpath on the left to towards the horse fields. A Robin popped out of the hedgerow and then, approaching the hidden pond on the left, first a Moorhen and six well-grown juvenile Egyptian Geese followed by a single juvenile Starling. making my way back I noticed the rest of the seventy strong flock of Starlings and mainly juveniles. Also a quartet of Goldfinch.
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| Juvenile Starling Sturnus vulgaris |
Back on the lane and a Dunnock plus another Magpie whilst to my right in the nearby wood a yaffling Green Woodpecker. And still no rain and quite warm, so a very pleasant hour's birding.
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| 6 Egyptian Geese goslings Alopochen aegyptiaca |
Birds seen:
Egyptian Goose, Buzzard, Moorhen, Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, Green Woodpecker, Pied Wagtail, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Starling, Greenfinch, Goldfinch.
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