Nice to get out birding again today especially on such a lovely morning and to a great location.
Highlights of the day was seeing the amazing amount of House Sparrows as I always do on every visit, still no less amazing every time though, an amazing flock of very noisy c.200 Jackdaw who took to the skies when a pair of Buzzard entered the field they were foraging in, a flock of c.50 Woodpigeon and a flock of c.50 Goldfinch feeding in an area where John the farmer is growing seed for the wild birds for over the autumn/winter, they had a lucky escape when a Kestrel dived in at them and some of the Finches even pluckily 'mobbed' the Kestrel, it was an amazing sight to see when they took to the air, I never thought Goldfinch could be so local, ironically it all happened below the Buzzard in the last photo and it never moved once.
Birds seen today were, Buzzard, Kestrel, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Dunnock, Robin, Starling, Blackbird, Green Woodpecker, Pied Wagtail, Cormorant, Woodpigeon, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Mute Swan, Moorhen and Mallard.
This time of the year I always take out windfall apples to put on the floor for the Blackbirds/Thrushes and as I was walking through one of the fields the above sheep charged towards me, couldn't work out first why but it became clear that the thought my bag of apples was food for them, you had to be there to appreciate it but trust me though it was quite funny having a load of sheep running towards you.
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