Had a late start over at Bonnetts this morning,which turned out to be a fruitful mornings birding and fruitful if you like being attacked by dogs salavating at the mouth,i hate jack russells.
Got over Bonnetts about 9.30,driving up to the usual spot that i park at,i had no less than 75 blue & great tits feeding on the road,in what must of been a spillage of some sort,probably seed.There were also dunnocks,finches and robins at the Banquet.I parked up and from the car could see 2 Goldcrest in the shrubs next to me and many finches in the woods trees behind gerpins lane.
On making my way to one of my usual view points,although cold i got the feeling that spring is getting ever closer,from reports we could well have temperatures up to 16-17c by wednesday/thursday although tomorrow is supposed to be freezing.From the usual vantage point i could hear Many skylarks,i counted 7 but there were at least double that in and around the field,the noise was fascinating.In the fields also were 35 Stock Dove,2 red legged Partridge which actually flew out of Bonnetts,pheasant and many many Wood Pigeons along with a couple of rooks,a good start,after about half hour with nothing but a Cormorant and a few Greenfinch i had a flock of 18 siskins,in amongst them were 3 Lesser redpolls,cracking stuff,this i thought would do me for the day but walking back to the car i saw something out the corner of my eye,at first i thought it was a greenfinch but under closer inspection it was a chiffchaff,my first for the year and a site first,happy days.I trudged off home happy as a hornchurch fan who gets 3 points against hastings tomorrow,Come on Hornchurch
Bonnetts sounding very good!
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