I made a brief morning visit on a very very cold day, to walk our dog Poppy, but didn’t linger too long – the cafe was too tempting.! On W lake there was a sleeeping Common Gull [not to so common these days] and a female Pochard was still present from yesterday. From the middle viewpoint on the Mile Road, I saw a Kingfisher whizz across W lake. 3 Gadwall were present yesterday but I didn’t notice them this morning. Most interesting was in a corner of W paddock where there were 8 Song Thrushes feeding together, with a couple of Redwing. I’ve never seen that many Song Thrushes together before – they’re usually pretty solitary feeders.
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Sounds like you never went to New Zealand, John? We arrived to our hotel in Christchurch after a tiring flight at night. The next morning, we looked out on the large lawn to see armies of thrushes feeding, more like blackbirds in winter here, or our winter thrush visitors. I don’t know why, but many of the species mistakenly introduced to NZ in Victorian times behave very differently to in Britain.
Hi Paul
John here [logged in as GBC]. I’ll reply via email.