Local Patch & Beyond 2022.

Trippling How's Bridelway:  14.10 - 14.40.  Windy and warm
Kestrel 
Poor do!

Black Bank: two visits @ 14.50 & 17.20
Kestrel - 2
Linnet - 14
Yellowhammer
Great Tit - 2
Goldfinch - 24
(Noticed the farmer has cleared all the dyke's and cut the edges of the arable land between fields and most have water in, so maybe a Squacco or Green Heron may put in an appearance, never ever seen either, once went to Lincoln where one (I think) was in a wee dyke but I missed it) also a tractor with cutting implement was butchering the hedges, thankfully the berries didn't disappear. 

Farmer's Lane - Brumby Common West:  15.35 - 16.30

Buzzard
Kestrel
Lapwing - c80
Goldfinch - c70 (enjoyed watching them in same little tree and swoop down behind car to a big puddle, did it a few times, got a pic of them in tree) 

East Butterwick:  16.40 - 17.10

Buzzard
Kestrel - 3 (bred in village, someone put a box up for them)
Starling - 30
Corvids mostly Crow and Jackdaw - c100
Common Gull & Black-head Gull - c350  (four lots in fields and one lot over).

Had intended going somewhere else but me patch pulled at me heartstrings!

John

 

Nebraska Wetlands:  11.00 - 14.30 Sunny and at times chilly.

Whoopers - 54 (best ever total)
Possible 1st winter Ring Ouzel watched it for 30 mins from a distance of no more than 20 feet, had to do a sketch due to both camera batteries dying after taking lots of pics and video of Whoopers, typical. Did text a pal hoping they may come but they must have been busy. 
Lapwing - 150
Cormorant
Starling - 50
Teal - 58
Shoveler - 2
Mallard - 4
Common Gull - 40
Black-head Gull - 150
LBB Gull
Yellowhammer
Buzzard - 3
Crow - 20
Jackdaw - 2

Forgot to mention seeing a Kestrel sat on same post as last time entering Scotter on Scotter Road.

Most enjoyable day and had quite a few chats with them asking me what had seen, so told them the top two.

Went earlier than usual due to docs appt.

Max

Hope to catch up with you soon at BB especially when we start our feeding. Take it as read that we always have a nice day when out birding even if we don't see much, often just go out and sit with a coffee watching and hoping ( sounds almost like a Dusty Springfield song )

Trippling How's Bridleway:  16:00 - 17: 10. Sunny.

Jay
Robin
Magpie
Wood Pigeon - 30
Crow - 50
Pheasant

Black Bank:  17.20 - 18. 20

Pink feet Geese - two skeins of 27 & 33 going south.
Kestrel - 2 (one flew alongside car for 50 yds)
Buzzard - when I saw this bird it was nearly dusk and 200 yards from me, I thought it was unusually light coloured, I know there is a pale-variant. This bird had white on its head and chest and tail. It wasn't till just now wondered if it was a Rough-Leg Buzzard??  Okay maybe what I saw today was just an ordinary Buzzard but if someone sees it and claims it then there is a good chance it was the bird I saw, (in same field as corvid's) and will be happy to have seen one again.  
Starling - 32
Gulls - c150 going to roost.
Mixed flock of Rooks/Crows and Jackdaw - c400 enjoying the overturned earth in one field.
Common Gull - 2 same field as above.

Not a lot but most enjoyable.

Can I ask if when others post they can say if they enjoyed their day, sometimes I don't and will say so.

Regards

Max

Yes Neil quite agree, unless we are very lucky age and beauty catches up with us sooner or later  .
Just lately been weighing up the pros and cons of places I always enjoyed visiting. Like Keb Wood and Appleby Carrs only about fifteen miles away but then thought what can I get there that I don't get on my local patch, very little so its not worth going and making myself far more tired than need be. 

Today went to my patch within a few miles (see report) and visited two sites over a two and a half hour period, didn't see massive amounts but I got fresh air, only saw two vehicles at first site and found somewhere to hang feeders temporailly on next visit/s but Squirrel was watching and that's why am not leaving them.  Then went to Black Bank western end and enjoyed watching two skeins of PFG go over and oddly really enjoyed watching c400 corvids eating.

As long as we enjoy our time out Neil that's all that matters.

Max

Glad you're now getting out and about and enjoying it Max. My birding too is mainly local. Can't be arsed chasing about nowadays and don't walk any great distances.