Thursday 3 January 2013

View from the south end

Lunchtime visit to the southern boundary at Castlecroft Bridge (accessed from the relatively new mini-roundabout where Castlecroft Lane becomes Radford Lane.  Noted the flood by the farm which even had its own moorhen.  Most of the birds were distant and aerial.  They comprised a flock of about 400 feeding on recently ploughed field and featuring 50+ redwing similar numbers of fieldfare and the rest being starlings. 4 greenfinches were also present.
The canal held 4 mute swan two adults and two juveniles.  No doubt these were refugees from Pool Hall where a few weeks ago a Great Northern Diver had spent a few days.  Pool hall does get very heavily fished but is worth a look being about half a mile further south along the canal.
Earlier in the day had calling/singing nuthatch(2), coal tit, great tit, robin, song thrush, and wren on the stretch between Aldersley and Newbridge.  The mild weather really seemed to have got birds into spring mode.

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