Friday, 18 November 2016

Sunday 13 November - Leaf collecting

Saturday was Wet, very cold and windy - I did a 6km Commando assault course at Hever Castle in Kent with Adie, a school friend and her Dad - It was freezing and very wet but ultimately good fun as I survived !

Sunday I was mainly recovering, the weather improved and I spent a fair amount of time outside. Apart from more continuing leaf fall, it was very similar to last weekend. A small handful of Redwing and Fieldfare flew over, with a couple of Song Thrush and 2 Mistle Thrush. Both Grey and Pied Wagtails visited the pond. A Siskin flock still numbered around 30 birds and kept to the Alders, 4 Lesser Redpoll were seen as were 2 Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Goldfinch and Greenfinch. A Marsh Tit appeared at the feeder which was the first time for several weeks and just one Common Buzzard was visible. There are plenty of Woodpigeons, but numbers in the low hundreds so far, rather than thousand of previous years but everything this year is a little later.

Trees still have many leaves left
No Sheep !!
The pond collecting leaves
Grey Wagtail

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