I haven't been active much lately, the reason being that there hasn't been much ado.
The rarities that were showing up on the run-in to Christmas aren't showing up any more with the exception of gulls (which don't interest me overmuch) and an american pipit which is a long way off in North Northumberland and it seems to me not worth chasing when I probably wouldn't have been able to distinguish it from the other pipits that occur on the coast.
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| Nuthatch |
The garden has provided the normal fare with the long-tailed tits visiting if sporadically and the nuthatch still appearing almost daily. I hear the long-tailed tits quite a lot in the Derwent Valley.
The Big Garden Birdwatch again passed with low numbers and birds that I would normally expect to see not turning up, including the pair of collar doves that have landed now and again. The overall totals (maximum seen at any one time) were:
Jackdaw 3, Woodpigeon 2, Robin 2, Blue Tit 2, Blackbird 1, Coal Tit 1. Nothing to write home about but this seems to be normal for the past few years.
Bike rides and car trips have produced vary little apart from the odd bird of prey.
I did finally get out for half an hour at Lamesley Pasture at lunchtime today. Here there was a large number of greylag geese, possibly 100, and around 20 moorhens digging around in the bankside mud, which is as many as I've counted at once. A couple of them looked like they might be males getting feisty with each other in preparation for the breeding season.
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| Moorhens |
Otherwise the main thing with wings that could be seen in the distance was the Angel of the North.
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