Sunday, January 01, 2012
New Year Crossbills
Scanning a large chaffinch flock on Abbey Park Farm's fields, I was surprised to see some bright red birds on the ground. These turned out to be male crossbills.
There were about a dozen birds (roughly half were female) and they kept up a constant twittering until flying off north.A walk through parts of the three woods brought nuthatch, treecreeper, half a dozen lesser redpolls and a brambling.
// posted by Christine @ 7:53 AM 
