APOLOGIES FOR THIS LATE POST THIS IS MY FIRST ACCESS TO THE COMPUTER SINCE YESTERDAY ! Saturday -Out and about starting at Marston in the morning .
Marston
On the Lagoon - 40 + Gadwall, 32 Mallard , 1 Tufted , 5 Teal
Down the track - Mixed flock of 20+ Great , Blue and Longtailed Tits, 2 Grey Wagtails near to red fence
In the reed beds - 4 water rail ( showing well in the morning sunshine ) + 2 Curlew
On the turf field 40 + pied wags .
On the rough ground behind the hedge flock of 80+ Linnets ( feeding on the ground but very mobile once passing horses had disturbed them ) , and a flock of 30 + chaffinches with alas no bramblings in them .
COLSTERWORTH / SKILLINGTON AREA Large numbers of gulls LBB , H , GBB, and Common roosting on fields with several thousand Starlings ( 4000 estimated ) + 7 red Kite + 4 Buzzards
KIRKBY UNDERWOOD - 5 Red Kites together overhead.
DUNSBY FEN - 3 Barn Owls, 1 Peregrine , 1 Sparrowhawk . Upto 2000 Golden Plover on Hacconby Fen which were frequently harrased by said Peregrine .
As said in a previous post a very local shoot at Dunsby did not do the barn owls any favours disturbing them from their daytime roost early .
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