Joys of the East

I popped up to DP main centre and only had to wait 5 minutes before 5 House Sparrow appeared, with little of nothing appearing to be going on at DP, I decided to check out what was in the field East of the old golf course.

I go via Dunt Lane opposite the Jolly Farmer pub and park in the main gate on the left about 250-300 metres along Dunt Lane. I began scanning and quickly found many birds, a closer inspection and the rough estimates were; 2 Mistle Thrush, 5 Meadow Pipit, 9+ Linnet, 100+ Pied Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail, 200 Redwing & Fieldfare, a handful of Goldfinch and various corvids.

If on DP that would be 4 year ticks, Linnet being most valuable as they are so uncommon, bordering on rare at DP now.

Dusk looking back West over the car park field last night was quite pretty

A late afternoon car park field got me 2 Mistle Thrush North West, another Kestrel, 12+ Fieldfare in groups of 4 NW, then 12-13 Golden Plover moving East below Bowsey Hill.