Parakeets investigating nest holes

7th December 15         morning          valley

partly sunny,  12-14°c,  1022 mb,  S 10

Changed my routine today and covered most of the length of the valley. Three redpoll in the Paddocks but otherwise quiet as was the Barleyfield. The canal held six winter plumaged little grebe, but the summery individual from the weir was absent and no sign of Ian's ruddy coloured bird from a week or so ago. Calling ring neck parakeets from a small wood ( I won't say where just incase they breed next year ) turned out to be three birds high up in a dead tree with three or four large holes, which one of the birds was very interested in, nearly disappearing into at times. Occasionally being set upon by the local corvids. A short distance away another one was calling.

Little Grebe	6	S&W canal
Ring Necked Parakeet	3  in small wood  (1 investigating holes in dead tree  ),   another calling some distance away,
Wren	1 singing	Meadow View
Robin	5 singing	valley
Coal Tit	3+	Newbridge boats feeders
Nuthatch	1 calling	Newbridge wood
Redpoll	3	The Paddock
Bullfinch	3	valley