If I were as avid a bird-watcher as some, I would be resetting my year list and starting a new one for 2010. I don't do yearly lists any more, but nevertheless just for the record I decided to go for a bimble to see what I could see on this third day of the New Year.
I started out in Poor park woods and then made my way across the fields at the back of my house. What I saw nearly made me start up my birding lists again.
Apart from the normal great tits, blue tits, starlings, fieldfares, blackbirds, robins, wrens and redwings I saw a coal tit and tree-creeper.
As I walked along one of the fences, I stood with mouth wide open as a barn owl (this was at 12 mid-day) fly along the fence line and then turn north out of sight. Alas no photo.
Before I left the woods I spotted this fallow deer being swallowed by a tree...
...and this fox sunning himself by the edge of the field.
The temperature in the woods didn't rise above -2C which made the mutjac and badger prints stand out well as they were incased in ice. In fact, I followed some badger tracks back to an old sett which I thought was disused. There was obvious recent activity which was pleasing to note.
On the way back I glimpsed in a nearby field and saw not one, not two but three herons.
Amazingly, a buzzard flew down from a tree but, after a short staring match with one of the herons, it wandered off out of sight.
All in all I thought that my sightings deserved some form of praise and recognition so I phoned up my birding mate Big Dave, only to remember he was in Morocco - bird watching!
Thanks for the visit.
Pablo.
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