What have you seen

Reading your post bought back some lovely memories, we also took that route across Exmoor when staying at the Dulverton site, I think we also parked to take photos in that spot!!

I was supposed to have headed for Countisbury this morning to visit stepson and wife for a couple of days but, having given the OH my manflu as a new year present, we have postponed.

I was supposed to have headed for Countisbury this morning to visit stepson and wife for a couple of days but, having given the OH my manflu as a new year present, we have postponed.

Saw what I took to be a flock of about 50 Thrushes feeding on a field close to the CL we're staying on near Upton. I didn't realise that they flocked in such large numbers.

Nellie, they'll be Fieldfares, see my pic on the previous page. I'll see if the copy and paste function works now.   (No it doesn't !)

A wander along the top of Portsmouth harbour at half tide. Lots of Brent geese, a few egrets, a couple of oystercatchers, a smattering of dunlin and a curlew heard but not seen. Plus the usual suspects - black headed gulls, crows.

A trip to the Avon Gorge to catch sight of the perigrine proved almost fruitless as the bird sat in a tree on the far side for the whole time I was there, but a few regulars popped up. Mouse, Robin, Grey Squirrel, Dunnock and Mistle Thrush.

brue, they were a good bit smaller than Fieldfares, and didn't appear to have the light colouring that I associate with them. Thanks for the photo though. 

We saw our first lamb of the year, with it's mother, a couple of days ago on Castlemorton Common.

Today we has a visit from a small flock of Long Tailed Tits. There were 4 of them at one time hanging and feeding on the fat ball outside of the van.

lovely walk in glorious winter sunshine round our local estate, not the housing sort, this morning .  Kestrel almost overhead hovering but moved off without coming down.  Heard at least one woodpecker and the rooks were crawing looking like they were beginning to pair up.  Dog had a field day barking at the squirrels, I swear she'll climb a tree one day!  One tree had four squirrels that we could see why aren't they hibernating?