Monday, January 13, 2014
Three robins were briefly in the garden this morning, all bobbing and bowing because they think it's spring. I happened to have the camera to hand and snapped them through the window.
I took a walk along the Jubilee River between showers and got a record shot of two little grebes (there were at least four) on the Eton Wick flood.
A sparrowhawk flew over putting loads of lapwings up from the common flood and I had brief views of a Cetti's warbler. Best of all, two green sandpipers came dashing and swooping across the Jubo, landing on the far shore of the EW flood. A little while later they were joined by a third individual. Walking back in fading light I saw one gently squeaking water rail in the boardwalk area and a second bird closer to the car park; while another Cetti's sang from the plantation near the small footbridge.
In Burnham Beeches yesterday I found the best birds near the moat: at least two redpolls were feeding high in silver birches - the first I've seen in the woods this winter. A large, scattered flock of chaffinches feeding on the ground included at least one brambling, one redwing and one coal tit.
// posted by Christine @ 11:39 AM 
