Today,Sunday 16th April 5 – 6pm
Freeman’s pond:
1 M Blackcap (near gate)
1 little grebe
4 m gadwall (being hassled by bhgulls)
2m 1f tufted duck
3 coots
1 Canada goose
1m mallard
The usual clan of black headed gulls, including two pairs nesting in the glass tank
Frog pond:
18 mute swans (2 of which juvenile)
4 greylag geese
19 Canada geese
(Where are the pair of oystercatchers and family of wigeon?)
Also in the field: 1 magpie; 1 crow; 1m blackbird; 1 M pheasant; 2 wood pigeons; pair of mallards.
In opposite fields: 7 wood pigeons; pair of Canada geese; 2m blackbirds
(The herring gulls in field behind pond were nowhere to be seen)
In Freeman’s wood along path between frog pond and willow lane:
2 chiffchaff
1 f chaffinch
6m blackbirds (females at home doing childcare)
2 robins
1 song thrush
2 blue tits
3 goldfinch (these goldfinch musketeers seem to have been in the area for a while)
6 crows
2 magpies
