Nice walk along Langton Lane today, the amount of mud about means the fields are hard going so we pretty much stuck to the road for our 3.72miles today!! Our road had the usual chirping Sparrows and Starlings and a very nice Purple Flower in our garden which also had a Blackcap which has pretty much trashed the apple I put out a couple of weeks ago, the footpath between our road and the lane is a Mudbath difficult to spot anything when your trying keep your footing and not loose your boots but as we reached the lane we had our first decent sighting of the morning a couple of Roe Deer who gave us the once over before bouncing away across the field, couple of Bullfinch here as well but I was too busy taking pics of the Deer to hunt them down.
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| Blackcap with trashed apple.(taken through glass ) |
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| Purple Flower in the Garden |
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| Roe Deer Buck |
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| Bouncy Buck |
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| Quick run across the field |
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| Quick check to make sure we are still watching |
We left the mudbath and hit the lane, which was an Ice Rink!! 😕 Usual Blackbirds, Wrens, Robins, Dunnocks etc We reached the Dung Heap which was steaming nicely 💩! The wires above the heap held 16 birds ,14 Meadow Pipits and 2 Pied Wagtails and some nice Redwings a bit further down the hedge.
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| Steaming 💩 |
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| Couple of the Meadow Pipits |
Margie's back has been playing up so she had left the Camera at home, so I had, under her direction to take a few pics!!
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| The View from the Lane |
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| View from the lane |
A Buzzard flew along being harassed by a Crow and then perched nicely on a dead branch, giving a nice silhouette but bit distant for any quality shots.
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| Buzzard, shame about the distance and light!! |
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| Buzzard |
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| Carrion Crow |
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| Carrion Crow |
We reached Mill Lane and followed it along, the trees were full of Fieldfares, Redwings and Starlings making a lot of noise and jostling about. Pictures don't really do it justice as the angles were difficult to get more than a couple of the birds in !
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| Redwing |
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| Fieldfare and Redwing |
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| Fieldfare |
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| Fieldfares |
We cut back in on a footpath, passed a pond with some nice Reedmace, more Fieldfares flying about, we eventually reach the Herring Stream, we walk along it but not much about and head up to the Turkey farm where we found a nice Kestrel and a load more Fieldfares flew in!!
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| Reedmace |
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| Fieldfare |
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| Fieldfare |
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| Hurstpierpoint Church this time over panels |
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| Fieldfares flying in |
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| Gathering Flock |
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| Bit of Jostling |
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| Settling Down |
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| Kestrel |
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| Relocated to wire |
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| Watching for prey |
Back on the lane we had a load of Skylarks in the same field as last week, which also held a load more Fieldfares and Redwings, loads about today, one of which posed ok, was also a couple of Red-legged Partridge which made a change!
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| Red-legged Partridge |
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| Fieldfare and Starlings |
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| Fieldfare |
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| Posing ok |
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| Spotted something!! |
We carried on down the lane, a Goldfinch and a couple of Greenfinch showed ok, I got a bit arty with some rosehips, the Dung heap was still steaming but nothing new present, the footpath off the lane was still a mudbath and one of our Sparrows welcomed us home.
On arrival home I topped up the feeders and replaced the apple and the Blackcap came back except this time it was a male!!
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New apple ,new Blackcap!
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| He's also found the Fatballs |
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