Now the summer migrants have left and other species are arriving to spend the winter, we concentrate our focus on sites that offer slightly different habitat and importantly sheltered areas in windy conditions. Today started much windier than forecast, but we persevered omitting to put up the net that often performs best since today it would have been completely exposed to the wind and billowing like the sails of a galleon. We put up a couple of extra nets across the track, as thrushes often move out of the worst of the wind between the hedgerows as they work their way inland.
The wind soon calmed a bit and we actually did rather better than we expected. LC was with us on her first visit to this farm and gained experience of two new species, Green Woodpecker and Goldcrest.
Birds were passing overhead as we worked and Redpoll, Brambling and Crossbill were all heard. Chris flushed a Woodcock that managed to evade the nets we'd put up for thrushes.
Total: 36 (6)
Blackbird - 12
Blue Tit - 9 (5)
Dunnock - 0 (1)
Goldcrest - 5
Great Tit - 3
Green Woodpecker - 2
Redwing - 1
Robin - 2
Wren - 2