Winter blackcaps are here

 Quick update on the garden as the blackcaps are back. They usually turn up the first week in December and one arrived bang on time on the 1st. Today there were two males. There are three bullfinches, the starlings have found the fat balls and a house sparrow dropped in as well. 

House sparrow

Blackcaps

Blackcap

WOW has had some serious groundworks being done this week so there were very few birds about. They have excavated three large holes to help them if it dries out and they have spread a bit of mud about as well. The wagtails were not intimidated however. 

Grey wagtail

Pied wagtail

grey wagtail

Why did the teal all fly off?

The mallard went as well?

New view from hide 1

New view from the big window.

A walk to Carnalea added 8 common scoter to the list and pushed the patch list to 70, still time for a couple more as I still haven't seen or heard a raven or a diver.

2021:

157: Common scoter

NDCP

70: Common scoter

WOW

87: Carrion crow