Saturday, 8 November 2025

Dale

A good look around the airfield, dozen or so blackbird on the track up,  few chaffinch, chiffchaff, blackcap and goldcrests. 110 lapwing in the potato field did a fly around. Flocks of starling collectively numbered around 1,000. Lots of pipit, skylark and flock of 75 linnet and goldfinch. Only 7 snipe on a walk through the inner triangle. A swallow at Marloes Sands end. No sign of Lisa's ibis at Mullock, bumped into Andy B who informed me they'd flown northwards. I wandered up the road to get a view of the fields towards St Brides, 100 wood pigeon, small flock of redwing, 2 red kite, 5 jays and 2 mistle thrush passing down the valley. Back for a look up Mullock marsh, chiffchaff in the reeds by Crabhall, but quiet until a young peregrine flushed the spotted redshank from one of the creeks.