Saturday, December 14, 2024

13th December 2024

I spent most of the day walking the fields looking for flocks of finches. The mixed seed fields at Little and Big Straps is holding around 300 finches. Activity on the feeding stations is also building up. 

Site Counts; Brambling, Yellowhammer (79), Reed Bunting (27), Chaffinch (132), Goldfinch (11), Greenfinch (6), Linnet (75), House Sparrow (40).

Skylark (25) Chalk pit field 15 Barge Field 10, 

Water levels are still high on the meadows Geese; Egyptian (2), Greylag (2), Canada (105), 

A flock of Meadow Pipit (26) were mobile at Athelhampton.

Greylag Goose


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