Friday, January 30, 2009

Hedgerow Birding

A walk along Lamin's Lane this morning produced a Common Buzzard being mobbed by corvids as it flew from the direction of Warrenhill Plantation and over Violet Hill. All was quiet walking up the lane, until reaching Keepers Cottage where at least eight Tree Sparrow were in the hedgerows and on the feeder, with two males and a female Yellowhammer with them.

The so-called "Golden Plover" field, which I now know as Top Woods Ground still contained winter flocks of Linnet and Pied Wagtail: around 50 and 25 respectively. A lone Goldcrest was in the hedgerow alongside the hayfield (called Arable Old Warren) and a Treecreeper was showing well on a birch near Warrenhill Heath. Thanks to John for naming all the fields in the area for me!

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