Not yet - An icy blast and more snow - Hopefully this is a final hurrah from this Winter. It's about this time of year , especially if you haven't been away for a Winter break, that it starts to be a little wearing.
Saturday started with Fog that broke up to a mist but with low cloud that intermittently remained all morning, I was slightly grounded as Adie had succumbed to flu type virus and the sofa (and SpongeBob) and Sally had taken Hannah to a match in Southampton. It was fairly mild outside so I spent a little while outside with a coffee or two just looking across the fields, thinking I'd see very little.
As I gazed into the mist there were a surprising number of birds moving - I had at least 25 Meadow Pipits fly over, lots of Siskin and a single Redwing. I then heard a Skylark (I've only ever seen autumn flyovers) and eventually picked up a bird songflighting and then saw a further 2 fly through. A single Cormorant and large numbers of Woodpigeon were moving and there seemd to be an increased corvid count with several Rooks, Carrion Crows Jackdaws, 3 Magpies, 2 Jays and best of all a Raven flew over the garden 'cronking'.
As the cloud lifted a couple of Buzzards appeared and for the first time in a long while I saw a maximum of 7 at one time in the sky. 2 Sparrowhawks and a single view of a Goshawk completed the raptor viewing. So a surpringly productive morning.
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