A pair of song thrushes near Cromwell gate on Saturday. I think of thrushes as solitary birds so perhaps this is a sign that spring is really springing.
Tag: Song thrush
Thrush and shellduck
Seeing a song thrush in Big Meadow this afternoon reminded me that on Tuesday morning we saw a song thrush in Carr House Meadow and a shell duck on West Field water
Song thrushes
Two song thrushes amongst a gang of blackbirds in the Orchard on Tuesday 28th January
Flower identity
Can anyone identify this flower, to be found under the big trees just to the east of the stumps?
And there was a song thrush in the Orchard this afternoon.
Song thrushes + heron + wrens
Two song thrushes busy by the double gates into Flora Field yesterday afternoon.
Plus the heron again near Lucy Brook yesterday morning. And not forgetting wrens which seem to be everywhere in our hedges at the moment.
Wildlife sightings
Whilst marking out the beetle banks ready for the ploughman yesterday I put up a snipe from the marshy area alongside Aldcliffe Road and then disturbed a brown hare which ran off across the Flora Field.
On my way home a song thrush was serenading the Orchard from the trees by the Towneley Close entrance.
Teal and thrush
Three teal on Alder Pond this morning, plus a song thrush in the Orchard.
Also, I have been meaning to report that the Hedge Working Party observed a hare in Lower Sowerholme on 25th January.
Birds
A song thrush in the Big Meadow today and up above a single soaring swift. A pair of other birds displaying over the Meadow with their distinctive calls.
Two thrush
Two song thrushes busy in the Orchard this morning.
Thrush and geese
Part of the large flock of geese currently feeding on the hills adjacent to West Field actually crossed the boundary and explored West Field for a short time this afternoon. They do seem to regard the hedge as a rigid boundary (my own amateur theory is that the hills are heavily manured and thus have new grass shoots) but perhaps this little foray will lead to more extensive occupation.
Also yesterday I saw two song thrushes flying from the Pads footpath across Big Meadow to the hedgerow near Lucy Brook. I believe it’s some time since anyone has seen thrushes.