Playing catch up

sun 24th January 16    Pool Hall area

dull & o/cast, 12-13°c,  1023mb SW 13 mph

A trip to Pool Hall and area with Ian was mostly quiet but did give us a good size flock of fieldfare, redwing and starling on fields between Perton Mill farm and the sewage works numbering at least 300 birds. They were eventually flushed by a predator which we couldn't find ( probably a high over flying  peregrine  as we would have seen anything else ). Pool Hall pool was poor with just 5 tufted duck and a few coot and moorhen. A single shoveler flying over fields was maybe heading to Pool Hall. Two lesser redpoll (a scarce species this year ) was found on Wightwick Fields. 

Grey Heron	3	SE fields
Mute Swan	1 flew E over	Wightwick Fields
Canada Goose	1	Pool Hall
Mallard	2 over	Smestow Fields
Shoveler	1 flew SW over	Smestow Fields
Tufted Duck	3♂ 2♀	Pool Hall
Buzzard	2	Wightwick Fields
Moorhen	1	Pool Hall
Coot	2	Pool Hall
Black Headed Gull	14	Pool Hall
Wood Pigeon	100+ flock	Eastern Fields
Robin	song	Pool Hall area
Fieldfare	c100	Perton Mill Fields
Redwing	c100	Perton Mill Fields
Long Tailed Tit	5+	Wightwick Fields
Starling	100+	Perton Mill Fields
Greenfinch	10+	Wightwick Fields
Goldfinch	2+	Wightwick Fields
Redpoll	2	Wightwick Fields