Its been sometime since I sent you a message as I have been away visiting family in snowbound Essex and Cheshire.Since returning this last week I made a trip up to the Rheidol reservoir on New years eve and think I saw the ringed neck duck but deffinately saw the 3 pairs of golden eye,the pictures that I took with my faithful Sony were great but the duck were too far away.
I have been busy feeding the garden birds and they have increased in number ,it takes me all my time to keep the feeders full.
You can just imagine how sad we were when we discovered two young sibling buzzards lying together in the field not far from the trees having literally fallen off their roost with starvation.Just a day before an adult, possibly their parent was a victim to road death.We took details of their weight and size ,they only weighed 600 gms and although more or less fully grown they just didn't have the body weight to sustain them through such a prolonged freeze!
The smaller birds seem to fair better,I watched 3 meadow pipit yesterday feeding on the south facing bank ,along with 6 redwing.
On the prom yesterday ,without my bins I was able to see the 17 turnstones tucked in out of the wind along with the 8 ring necked plover on the sand under the war memorial.
Lis Collison
Lis Collison