Plantsbrook Nature Reserve.

First trip to Plantsbrook Nature Reserve in nine weeks and the change in the environment has been quite dramatic with all the leaves now on the ground instead of on the trees and practically all the waterside vegetation has now died back until next Spring.

There was way more activity on the water than there was in the trees apart from two small separate flocks of Goldfinch and Long Tailed Tit, in fact the most action I saw today was a noisy flock c.50 Redwing fly overhead.

Birds seen today were Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Wren, Robin, Redwing, Blackbird, Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Cormorant, Grey Heron, Mute Swan, Great Crested Grebe, Moorhen, Coot, Tufted Duck and Mallard.

I also went prepared with wood, hammer and heavy duty nails to fix the bird tables that the chavs have wrecked, hopefully the idiots will leave them alone this time, I doubt it though.