After rain all last night in Birmingham it was nice to get up and see it was dry which meant I was off to Newhall Valley Country Park in Sutton where even though it was overcast it was actually very mild the only problem was nearly losing your boots in the flooded fields.
Highlight of day was hearing all the bird song, which was very strange for Winter's day, the Song Thrush in particular were very vocal and seemed to be competing with each other to be the loudest in their territory. The Tits and Finches in particular were also having a good old sing song. Also strange to see were Snowdrops, I know it does happen in mild Winters like were having now but when you consider snow was on the floor this time last year, Snowdrops were a welcome sight.
Highlight of the day bird spotting wise was seeing a flock of c.20 Siskin foraging amongst the river where there was also mixed Tit and Finch flocks. I also saw another flock of Siskin on a completely different part of the river around two hours later but they could have obviously been the same flock I observed earlier in the day.
Birds seen were Siskin, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Bullfinch, Robin, Starling, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, Redwing, Blackbird, Jay, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Grey Heron, Moorhen, Mallard and Canada Goose.
If you read my previous post and I stated my 'Fungus' find was Crystal Brain Fungus I've now decided it was Star Jelly instead and that it's not even a Fungus in fact nobody now's what it is theories have ranged from the substance being the remains of frogs, toads, or worms, an animal excretion, 'star snot' from meteorites, to the byproducts of cyanobacteria, to the paranormal, Reports of the substance date back to the 14th century and have continued to the present day.
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