Workmans Lane, Warsash

Sunday 22 June

Just a fifty minute walk down Workmans Lane, Warash then round the horse field and back to the car along Hook lane before the day got too hot and muggy.  Some cloud and a gentle breeze but with very few people about so chance to see and hear the bids before they were disturbed. Both Wren and Whitethroat as I walked down the lane and no sooner entering the track at the bottom of the horse field, a Magpie above and a male Blackbird on the track in front of me.

Whitethroat Sylvia communis

And it was the walk around the edge f the horse field that provided most of the birds.  No sooner had a couple of Carrion Crows crossed in front of me than I stopped to identify the Nuthatch landing at the top of the tree in front. A Greenfinch was calling and eventually found atop a small bush near the donkey enclosure and looking into the horse field on my left I found a trio of foraging Rooks.

Nuthatch Sitta europaea

Woodpigeons began to show themselves either in flight or at rest and at the turn left I came across a quartet of Linnet.  No Egyptian Geese to be seen but once I get a view of the small lake I found a quartet of resting Canada Geese.  Above me a singing Skylark and, finally, looking down the shaded lane the ran away to the left of the lake, a foraging Pheasant.

Skylark Alauda arvensis

Birds seen:

Canada Goose, Pheasant, Woodpigeon, Skylark, Wren, Blackbird, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Nuthatch. Magpie, Rook, Carrion Crow, Greenfinch, Linnet.

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