A weekend dominated by rain. The few dry hours on Saturday morning I was taking Adie then Hannah to and from Hockey matches, with about 45 minutes in-between. There did seem to be a movement of Meadow Pipits as in this time I had 31 birds flying over in small groups all heading South. There also seemed to be a few more thrushes round with the first Song Thrush I've seen for a while and at least 6 Blackbirds and a Mistle Thrush and I know DB had an adult Ring Ouzel on Blackdown. Then the rain started.
Today, the overnight rain continued heavily until around 1pm when it gradually brightened up, which was a shame as I had some time this morning when a walk would have been ideal. Out of the wet kitchen window a couple of Robins were flitting around and the occasional Blue Tit, Coal Tit or Great Tit making it onto the feeders and 4 Mallards flew over but understandably everything else (I won't mention the Woodpigeons) was rightly keeping under cover. As it brightened Bullfinch, Greenfinch and 6 Goldfinch and 2 Chaffinch were seen feeding then a number of House Martins moved through with several of them spending some time hawking over the pond. 2 Raven, a Sparrowhawk, Hobby and Buzzard were seen all probably drying out on the wing and 2 more Meadow Pipit flew over, most unusual was a flock of 16 Gulls high and west flying into the sun which were probably Lesser Blacked-backed Gulls.
Best news of the week, I got my Swarovskis back! all sparkly clean, with the rubber coating fixed and with no charge. Pretty good service I would say. Now just waiting for the camera lens before I feel like I'll be back in business.
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