Monday, January 21, 2013
Dorney
Late afternoon Greger declared work over for the day and suggested a walk at the wetlands. We parked at the cattle grid and went to look at the floods. Greger hasn't seen them and was duly impressed.
The common flood has a covering of ice but the Eton Wick flood held loads of snipe, teal, at least two dunlins and a green sandpiper.
As we left, with the light rapidly vanishing, we saw a bunch of wigeon and gadwall out in the snowy field beyond the twigs of the Roundmoor Ditch.
Fieldfares were evident on the wetlands, foraging mostly on the ground beneath the bushes. The berry eaters must now be in trouble.
A small spectacle: several flocks of ring-necked parakeets flying low and silent over the flooded field to the north-east, their plumage a startling brilliant green in the light from the setting sun.
// posted by Christine @ 11:59 AM 
