Saturday, December 04, 2010
Dorney "Corner"
A positively balmy zero degrees today, after minus four yesterday. We decided against a long walk, so I paid a visit to the wetlands. As usual, the bend in the Roundmoor stream on the county boundary was extremely busy. A Cetti's warbler sang several times and flew up onto a bare branch for a nanosecond. The resulting snapshot has been duly trashed.
A kingfisher viewed the misty water from a high perch.
At least four chiffchaffs were feeding along the partly submerged willow branch together with pied and grey wagtails, and there were more wrens than you could shake a stick at. A pair of mallards gliding behind the willow pushed out a gently protesting water rail.
Also present in the corner were blue, great and long-tailed tits, dunnocks, greenfinches, chaffinches, robins, blackbirds, a song thrush and a little grebe.// posted by Christine @ 6:26 AM 
