Today, Friday 17 Feb 3.30-4pm
Lots going on! Eclectic gathering at the cow pond…
Freewoman’s pond:
10 Goldeneye, the 3 males doing a dance, craning their necks onto their backs the stretching them out and forward again…
3 tufted tuck (2m 1f)
2 little greeb
10+ teal
1 gadwall
3 coot
2 mallard
2 long tailed tits
1 bluetit
2 wrens
3 blackbirds
3 woodpigeon
Btw walkers said they saw 4 deer by the pond
Cow pond field:
1 interesting possible canada-barnacle hybrid? Smaller than Canada, brownish back and white face with no visible dark fore-eye as on barnacle.
50-60 Canada geese
7 curlew
2 oystercatcher
Dozen or so wigeon
2 redshank
1 brown hare ran past the bemused geese
Opposite field: 1 little egret and several moorhens
