Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Monday 14th April
Still cold! Just over the stile in Egypt Woods, late afternoon:- a singing chiffchaff, low enough for superb views, two treecreepers (at least one of which was singing) looking very bright and beautiful, and half a dozen siskins feeding high in the birches.
I walked up to the LSWP junction in a light shower of rain, seeing buzzard and kite on the way. A great spotted woodpecker was drumming and a green woodpecker switchbacked through the trees yaffling hysterically. When I got back to the car park, I was surprised to find mine the only car there. Everyone else was probably up on the common in the sun, with a million dogs barking - I'd had the bird-filled woods to myself.
Still cold! Just over the stile in Egypt Woods, late afternoon:- a singing chiffchaff, low enough for superb views, two treecreepers (at least one of which was singing) looking very bright and beautiful, and half a dozen siskins feeding high in the birches.
I walked up to the LSWP junction in a light shower of rain, seeing buzzard and kite on the way. A great spotted woodpecker was drumming and a green woodpecker switchbacked through the trees yaffling hysterically. When I got back to the car park, I was surprised to find mine the only car there. Everyone else was probably up on the common in the sun, with a million dogs barking - I'd had the bird-filled woods to myself.
// posted by Christine @ 3:14 AM 
