Tuesday 6 December 2016

Quick walk around St Lawrence

Finally back from Colombia and recovered from the inevitable bug, so I decided to have a quick walk through St Lawrence - with any luck the core 'recording area' of a future Bird Observatory......

Highlights in the warm murk were seven song thrushes and twelve blackbirds along the fence line above Woody Bay, west of the coastguard cottages. Four meadow pipits emerged from the tussocky grass here too and fifteen goldfinches headed quickly east in a tight flock. Just inland, two chiffchaffs were a pleasant surprise in the SWA willow bed, with a treecreeper and four goldcrests there too. Later, two goldcrests were in birches on Love Lane, Steephill Cove, with ten blackbirds and a song thrush at the putting green in Ventnor Park at dusk.

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