Today was a classic January day for watching some early Gos activity and so it proved although a very quiet 50 minutes or so with little on view other than singing Mistle Thrushes and a few Redwings preceded their appearance. Other heard-onlys were Siskin, Raven and one or two Woodlarks. A couple of Buzzards flew past but with not a puff of wind and a clear blue, cloudless sky seemed disinclined to do anything more than glide to the next perch. First one, then two and finally three Goshawks rose up, one flew off north but the other two sparred for a while before heading south.
Amazingly, it's nearly three years since the last Gos watch here - a side effect of the impact of COVID - how time flies.
At Blashford very little but this Green Sandpiper showed well, the Goldeneyes were far better and closer than the Langstone birds and a handful of Goosanders were the first for a while. A brief visit to the south side saw a few Siskins feeding high up in the trees and two very combative Kingfishers chasing each other from Ivy Lake to the Salt Pond and back.
Yesterday was a brief look at QECP where the Brambling flock seems to have gone, moved or broken up with just ten seen or heard and precious little of anything else.
Total now 120
