Sunday, September 25, 2011
Forest and heath
This is one of many flighty, vocal siskins heard and/or seen on my walk today.
As I watched a small flock of siskins by the stream, a firecrest sang a few times from bushes but I could only get a brief, obstructed view of him through twigs and leaves. Several stonechats were hunting from vantage points in the otherwise-quiet heather. But best of all, out on the Surrey heaths, a couple of singing woodlarks made this belated bit of summer feel like the real thing.
In the forest, birds seen included two treecreepers, loads of goldcrests, and a buzzard; while over the heathlands swallows and house martins were flying, fairly low and leisurely, but very definitely, south. Having since seen reports of huge numbers moving across the country today I wish now I had taken more notice of this visible migration.
// posted by Christine @ 11:33 AM 
