Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
30th March
village area am / Cadianda road pm
Great to see the Alpine Swifts above the village this morning, a couple of dozen at least. We walked down to the Cadianda restaurant to attend a charity cake and bake sale, homemade Sausage Rolls and meat and potato pies, Lemon Drizzle cake. Fantastic close up view of a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.
The afternoon we walked the Cadianda road where a Cetti’s warbler continues to call and a Hoopoe flew up the road out of sight around every corner thinking it had got away until we appeared around each corner, each time sending it on its way.
We took some shade in a small wooded orchard and watched an elderly goat herding laying down under a tree while the goats foraged nearby.
Great views of a Cirl Bunting and black eared Wheatear sat in the same bushy tree.
Greenfinch definitely the default bird for the entire walk, however a couple of great species enlivened the last part of the walk with a Rock Bunting perched in a roadside tree and when it flew off another joined it. However the bird of the afternoon was a female Red Crossbill feeding in a pine tree in the village.
village area am / Cadianda road pm
Great to see the Alpine Swifts above the village this morning, a couple of dozen at least. We walked down to the Cadianda restaurant to attend a charity cake and bake sale, homemade Sausage Rolls and meat and potato pies, Lemon Drizzle cake. Fantastic close up view of a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.
The afternoon we walked the Cadianda road where a Cetti’s warbler continues to call and a Hoopoe flew up the road out of sight around every corner thinking it had got away until we appeared around each corner, each time sending it on its way.
We took some shade in a small wooded orchard and watched an elderly goat herding laying down under a tree while the goats foraged nearby.
Great views of a Cirl Bunting and black eared Wheatear sat in the same bushy tree.
Greenfinch definitely the default bird for the entire walk, however a couple of great species enlivened the last part of the walk with a Rock Bunting perched in a roadside tree and when it flew off another joined it. However the bird of the afternoon was a female Red Crossbill feeding in a pine tree in the village.