Another local birding outing this afternoon.
The sun was competing with the thin misty stuff for the most part.
Bitterly cold on Soil Hill with a stiff breeze with some east in it, brrrr!
A long saunter around the hill today was enjoyable but not very productive until I heard Geese arriving from the East > NW - Pinkies - always a spirit lifter.
I woke up this morning with a smile on my face.
Wife asked "Have you slept funny?".
Birds:
Bradshaw: Pr. Little Owl, Wren.
Ned Hill Area: C40 Woodpigeon
Soil Hill: Not a lot stirring.
A very large flock of 'disintegrating' Pink Footed Geese >NW.
A count from one of the photos was 382 (give or take 10 or so)!
Pr. Stock Dove.
1 Lapwing.
Taylor Lane:
c80 Lapwing near Raggalds Inn, very distant.
Starling were in with the Lapwing.
Other birds on the photograph, are too distant to ID with confidence, are possibly Fieldfare, Woodpigeon or Stock Dove?
I was hoping for Goldies and there just maybe a couple here, See what you think!
5 Herring Gull over.
Nearest I could get to a Goldie cropped from one photo??
Soil Hill Pinkies
Photo doctored using 'Auto contrast' in Picassa 3.
To make them easier to count!
Thrush type John, Fieldfare I,d say
ReplyDeleteI was just looking at some Goldie pics thinking that the wings are wrong for Goldie and a Thrush sp came to me as well.
ReplyDeleteBy the time I've written the blog, sorted the photos, loaded them etc. there's not much time to actually study any awkward ones. With all the photos you deal with - I'm sure you know the feeling!
Many tanks for the comment.
John
Good do with the 'pinkies' John
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