Seemed like a good day to road test the new hearing aid so set off from Newbridge for the almost unfrequented bit of land just north of the viaducts.
It worked immediately getting me a goldcrest on the Smestow I would otherwise have missed and bringing me various thrush noises in the stadium area.
Anyway took life in hands and ventured under the viaduct on east bank of canal. Always expect more than get from this patch but it did give me an alternative view of the Jackdaws as they gathered late afternoon. About 200 were in the trees by railway line prior to moving towards racecourse. they were then joined at 3.45 by another flock of between 200 and 250 arriving from the north. this contrasts with the magpies which only seem to start coming in as light fades and in ones and twos.
2 little Grebe north of water bridge and updating last week female blackcap by boatyard footbridge same spot as last year.
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