Saturday 14 November 2015

Kingfisher,   Grey Wagtail,   Little Grebe


14th November 15           morning             mid section

o/cast,dull,  7-8°c,  1023mb,  SW 9-S 8 mph



Forecast rain held off long enough to get some birding done. I seemed to have flushed a kingfisher from just below the old bridge on Meadow View as I arrived on site, which flew off towards the brook in Station Paddock , also seen from here a little grebe to the north by the boats, probably the pale bird, two more seen by Meccano Br both darkish birds and another the now fast fading summer plumaged bird at the weir.  A grey wagtail on brook by Smestow Bridge makes a full pack of our water birds. 


Little Grebe 4 1 (s/p)+2 (dark w/p)+ 1 (pale poss 1cy)
Moorhen 3 imm S&W Canal
Black Headed Gull 13 Compton Field
Kingfisher 1 flushed from below bridge-flew off twds Smestow Station Paddock,
Great Spotted Woodpecker calls Railway walk Annex Barleyfield
Grey Wagtail 1 Smestow Bridge
Wren 1 singing The Paddock
Dunnock 1 singing The Paddock
Robin 4 singing mid section
Redwing c25 mid section
Long Tailed Tit calls Meadow View
Coal Tit 2 Newbridge boats feeders
Nuthatch 2 calling Newbridge Wood
Jackdaw odds over mid section
Chaffinch c5 mid section
Greenfinch c15 mid section
Bullfinch calls Barleyfield



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