Saturday, March 13, 2010
The woods
A walk in Egypt Woods brought larch trees full of siskins, with a few redpolls and a brambling. Several times I heard the dry-as-a-biscuit call of a crossbill.
In Burnham Beeches, a puddle had attracted five Mandarin drakes and two ducks. "There may be trouble ahead....."
There were a further two pairs in the moat and could well have been more - I didn't walk right round.