That is exactyly what it was last Saturday, a festival of birds, we were on a walk around West Caister, it was dull and drizzly but not cold.we walked from the marshes up to the pine trees at West End Caister.
Rather than go through to the concrete path that leads to the chicken sheds Mautby way, we took a shortcut path over fields, this incorporated a lovely pond, here we saw Redwings, Fieldfare, and Siskins, we stopped at the corner of the scrubby edged field, where probably in the summertime there will be lots of lovely wild flowers, and thus attracting lots of butterflies hopefully.In the distance we saw two Barn Owls, nearby over the trees at Waters Covert we saw three Buzzards, they had caused the Corvids to fly up from the trees.
There were Goldcrests everywhere feeding feverishly in every scrubby bush, willow tree and Sycamore we passed, it was amazing.There were Yellowhammers, Ring Ouzel, and once again along another part of the Pickerell Holme we saw a Kingfisher, this is becoming a regular sighting, everytime we cross the stream.
The day was very dull and drizzly and there was an east wind, so in bad weather migration stops, the little birds drop down to find a nice sheltered bush or tree, to feed and rest and hunker down before they continue their journey in finer weather.
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