Nice to have a quick visit to Rookery Park in Erdington this morning as I was in the area. Rookery Park is a great little location if not very small and is now unfortunately even smaller thanks to houses being built on a section of the site, even though many of the trees are still present practically all of the bushes and hedgerow have now completely gone leaving a lot of birds with little or no cover, it's always such a shame to see construction companies decimate locations such as this, this is the same company that erected some very poor netting to deter birds from nesting of which they also didn't maintain, thankfully they removed it all after I 'outed' them online.
At least there was still some nice bird activity to see which made the visit worthwhile not least the c.50 Redwing foraging on the grass, it was great to hear House Sparrow who were in the gardens far away from the construction works, there was also flocks of Blue Tit, Great Tit, Chaffinch and Goldfinch, there was also a sizeable number of Blackbird, Robin and Starling.
Birds seen today were, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, House Sparrow, Robin, Dunnock, Starling, Redwing, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow and Magpie.
When I got home it was great to have a visit from the very first Grey Wagtail I've ever seen in the garden.
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