Yesterday I braved the rain in hope of another new year list addition, but just got wet.
Later I went to Bittern hide and just short of the hide 3 Lesser Redpoll flew up, but remained in the area despite there being no feeders with food for them. About 15 Swallows and House Martin were overhead and I fantasized about Red Rumped Swallow. A lone Mistle Thrush flew West.
Tuesday at 08:15 was very active, a Chiffchaff on arrival and over car park field I had numerous Siskin, 30 Redwing, 7 Linnet, the best count all year, 5 then another 4 Skylark SE, a handful of Meadow Pipit SE, Swallows trickling by. Off the balancing pool came 27 Wigeon which headed to LFGP.
At LFGP a Lesser Redpoll over, Swallow volume increased to the order of about 100-150 in 30 mins, no doubt encourgaed by a break in the cloud for 20 minutes, about 30 House Martins in company with them. 5 of More Skylark were displaying and chasing each other on the landfill. A lot of other finches were going over in the distance, too far to i.d. but no doubt some were Chaffinch and Siskin. Along the Loddon I heard 2 more Chiffchaff.
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