Lesser Redpoll year tick and now 4 Pintail

Arriving around 08:15, I had 2 Redwing over West, 8 Siskin landed in the Silver Birch by the DAC, then at the car park field  a lone Lesser Redpoll over North, putting me on 127 for the year.

It always amazes us how an unusual bird turns up, or 2 in this case and then another 2 join it, it seems to happen with strange frequency, even with major UK rarities.

So there we have it we had 2, now we have 4 Pintail, all looking happy, feeding on the abundant autumn weed.

Much quieter on the small bird front today, just a few Swallow, 2-3 Meadow Pipit, 2 Blackcap, on to Bittern Hide and 3 Snipe, lots of Gadwall, a few Wigeon and Shoveler and Teal.

Looping around Sandford and back to the car park field with Brian, we picked up 2 Lesser Redpoll on the wires then low Hawthorns near Lea Farm.

Still despite what we had it was clearly quieter.