Pype Hayes Park.

Great visit to Pype Hayes Park this morning, I did plan to go somewhere else originally but I wanted to pay another visit here after the washout last Thursday and that decision more than paid off as I was blessed with some great early morning views of the park bathed in the low Autumn sunshine and a lovely mist just above the surface which made for some great photographic opportunities.

The park itself was awash with birds including a very impressive flock of .c50 Long Tailed Tit and that's a conservative estimate, a gorgeous Song Thrush who for some reason was singing away, obviously there was also plenty of Blue Tit, Great Tit, Robin,  Blackbird and large amounts of Parakeet, the pool was much the same as previous visits with the resident Grey Heron, Shoveler, Gadwall, Domestic Duck and Mute Swan all present, then it was off to the adjacent river (the Plants Brook) where there were still pleasant surprises to be seen, first off it was notable how many Robins were to be seen along the stretch of the river I walked, they could be literally seen along the entire path I took which is always great to see, then it was great to see a pair of Bullfinch who were always just in front off me as I walked along the path, roughly in the middle of my walk along the river it was great to see my first Redwing of the year as they along with Blackbirds were feasting on the large amount of berries that there were to be found, also great to see was a Little Egret and I even saw a pair of Jackdaw foraging in the river which is not something you see everyday, the river itself is amazing clear and clean which is positive for all the wildlife that depend on it.

Birds seen today, Parakeet, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Starling, Nuthatch, Redwing, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Woodpigeon, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Grey Heron, Little Egret, Mute Swan, Shoveler, Gadwall, Domestic Duck, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Moorhen, Coot and Canada Goose.