The sun certainly
had its hat on today. The wind at ground level was fairly light compared to the
skies. The early clouds were sent racing across the downs at a rate of knots
which would have left the fittest of racehorses short of breath!
This dashed any real
prospects of observing raptors from the gallops but the walk did produce a
Buzzard, Kestrel and a Sparrowhawk. The latter kept low weaving in and out of trees
with the intention of ambushing an unsuspecting passerine.
The sighting of the
day was a flock of predominantly Redwing with some chucking Fieldfare as the
flock of around 200 dispersed and re-grouped having been disturbed during their
lunch break!
A pair of Nuthatch
was noted in a mixed tit flock along the track to Langley Vale Wood.
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