Tuesday, November 15, 2011
A golden afternoon.....
......was very welcome after the gloom of yesterday. These teal did not, for once, take fright when I peered out of the "hide" window; the blur on the closer one's flank is his foot as he preens and scratches.
Two Cetti's warblers were muttering away in separate locations, and a kingfisher was zooming about on the Roundmoor Ditch. A crow was dining off what looked like a dead Canada goose just above the weir; and an unseen green sandpiper called.Best of all, two stonechats were spotted on the far bank, perching briefly on reeds but then disappearing from view. These were my first stonechats here since December last year. As I walked back to the car a flock of about forty parakeets flew over going east.
// posted by Christine @ 11:41 AM 
