Merry Christmas

Last Post...before the Festivities.

Had three hours yesterday afternoon at my Inland Patch. Water Levels still VERY high limiting opportunities for Wader feeding/resting...

Great White dot

Garganey Hide is out of action...

Still plenty of aerial activity with huge numbers of Lapwing still present, creating clouds akin to Starling mumurations! 3 Little Grebes are still trying to figure out what happened!

...as was the pale Buzzard...

A flock of c200 Pink-footed Geese have been seen on most visits...

...as have 6 Long-tailed Tits...

There are still huge numbers of Fieldfare present which is very unusual for December. They've usually eaten all the berries and moved on by now! Maybe late arrivals?

From a previous Dawn arrival

I saw ONE Redwing...

...and a single Song Thrush...

A few more from recent visits...

3 still present

Kingfisher on the scrape before the flood

I had a nice chat with a young Italian couple from York which passed a pleasant hour. Hopefully water levels will have subsided on my next post-Christmas visit.

Locally the Star attraction was this confiding Barn Owl which tolerated my presence of my car...

Such a beautiful Bird and so fortunate to have a decent population nearby. 

Starting to finalize my Trip planning for my visit to see my son Robert in the New Year. Not long now.

So MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and yours...and thanks for following my Blog. Cheers...