Another great day for a spot of birding and to see all the insects, flowers and plants coming to life at last.
Highlights of the day were seeing a flock of Mealy Redpoll, hard to tell how many because they were in amongst a clump of trees coming into leaf but there were at least twenty, also seeing a Green Woodpecker foraging for ants amongst the grass whilst you could hear another one about fifty yards away, it was also nice to see a female Blackcap for a change, as always it was also nice to hear all the birds singing especially the Song Thrush and Blackbird.
Birds seen were Buzzard, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Chiffchaff, Blackcap (female), Mealy Redpoll, Wren, Dunnock, Robin, Nuthatch, Blackbird, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Grey Wagtail, Green Woodpecker, Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, Moorhen, Mallard and Canada Goose.
I'm no expert on fish but an Angler told me the fish taken in the top photograph is a Linear Carp, the picture was taken in the New Hall Valley Hotel moat where no fishing is allowed so apparently some of the fish in there are thirty years old.
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