Vis Mig again............. Redwings and Fieldfares!

-
Before my late shift today at the General I had time to do a bit of vis-migging at Dean's Lane, Beacon Hill in the morning.
Meeting Steve Lister at the viewpoint at around 8.00am, it wasn't long before we started to pick up small groups of Redwings as there flew over the lane.
Over the next two hours we saw good numbers of Redwings, an assortment of Finches, 4 local Crossbills and the probably the first two Fieldfares recorded this autumn in the county.
Taken from the Trektellen website here is the count for the morning:
Common Snipe 1
Song Thrush 1
Black-headed Gull 5
Redwing 119
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Starling 136
Skylark 14
Chaffinch 43
Meadow Pipit 7
Greenfinch 21
alba wagtail sp. 7
Goldfinch 3
Fieldfare 2
Totals: 360 individuals, 13 species, 2:35 hours

With the movement of winter thrushes I can say that Autumn has finally arrived and hopefully some decent sightings in Leicestershire for the next few weeks?!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A few bird photos over the last few months...

-
Image
 Over the last year I bought myself a new Leica lens (100-400mm) for my Panasonic Lumix G9 Camera, so here's a few photos I have taken over the last few months. First up the long staying Lesser Yellowlegs at Frampton Marsh RSPB. Next up the Northern Waterthrush at Heyford, Essex...    and finally for the time being one of the Yellow-browed Warbler at Oakthorpe, Leicestershire in Early January 2024.
Read more

Ring-billed Gull OMFL!!!

-
Image
Meeting up with Neil Hagley this afternoon at Shawell Balancing Lake almost the first gull I looked at was an Adult Ring-Billed Gull . Just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating I ask Neil to have a look at this gull in my scope and he came to the same conclusion. GET IN!!! So over the next half an hour we ticked off all the salient features of the bird and then phoned out the news. As this was probably only the sixth record for Leicestershire and Rutland as you can imagine I took quite a few digishots of the gull. Joined later by the Groby crew (Allen, Andy F and Paul) just before the Ring-billed Gull flew off towards the tip, it wasn't long before the group picked at least 3 Yellow-legged Gulls and 3 Caspian Gulls (2 Adults and 1 2nd-winter bird) in the large gull flock. So to put this sighting of the Ring-billed Gull in context, it's probably only the sixth time it has been recorded in the county.It was a county tick for myself, Neil and the Groby crew and Ring-billed G...
Read more