Hello
I think that most of the county experienced a reasonable snow fall today which has stirred things up a bit!
Our small garden certainly pulled in the birds once the snow began to cover the ground and we had brief visits from a Common Buzzard, a Sparrowhawk, a Redwing, a Fieldfare, a Yellowhammer plus more usual fare, with Blackbirds and Goldfinches in particularly good numbers.
Birders out and about, mostly before or during the initial snowfall saw a few things today with thirty White-fronted Geese being located by Adrian at Stanwick Pits and four Cattle Egrets being spotted there earlier by Jon Andrews. Ian found six Barnacle Geese, a Goosander and five Golden Plovers at Clifford Hill Pits and Jon Cook saw his usual gang of nine Crossbills at Hollowell Reservoir.
Three Goosanders were reported from Hardwater Lake at Earls Barton Pits and a hard weather movement of eighty Skylarks in two flocks were seen flying east over Scaldwell village. A Barn Owl and a pair of Stonechats were visible in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton just before the snow hit.
Regards
Neil M
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| Common Buzzard in the garden birch tree! |
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| Adult male Blackbird. |
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| Blue Tit eyeing up the apple! |
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| Male Chaffinch. |
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| Male Nuthatch. All these images were taken in the garden today. Apologies for the poor quality but snow and double- glazing doesn't make it easy! |
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