Thursday, March 05, 2009

Thursday 5th March

The cold has returned so I was on foot at the Peregrine Watch. A large flock of Sea Gulls was circling above the river, looking like pieces of paper in a wind. Walking back along the Gorge rim I spotted a Redshank just below the Donkey Slide, then, just before Circular Road stopped to look for a Robin singing. He was high up in some ivy on an ash tree, without his red breast he would have been impossible to find. Coming back behind Zoo Bank there were three kinds of Tit - Blue, Coal and Great, all in pairs, and flitting around the top of the hawthorn bushes. Add Blackbirds and Thrushes, Magpies, Crows, Pigeons and Jackdaws.

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Sunday, Tuesday, 1st, 3rd March

Sunday afternoon brought out the crowds - and banished most birds from the downland, though a flock of Jackdaws had found a tasty patch to probe beside Ladies Mile. On the river I saw the lone Mute Swan on both days, I wonder if he/she is either looking for, or has lost a mate. There are a number of Swans on the docks water. There were a few Redshank on the mud on Sunday, and a Cormorant digesting its dinner. Tuesday I watched a flock of Jackdaws wheeling above the Gorge, the Raven pair were flying around, sometimes in the midst of the Jackdaws. A lone Peregrine left the Gully, flew over the river, and then up towards the Suspension Bridge.