Don’t panic they haven’t returned but for those who do not know the sisters had travelled 20 miles to Amwell Nature Reserve by this morning. Since then they have moved a little further south and back to the RSPB’s Rye Mead Reserve.
Bushy Park
Skylark: 2 pairs in the Upper Lodge Road area.
Redwing: 110 in two flocks, one in the Canal Plantation and another by Chestnut Avenue.
Fieldfare: 4 were perched in trees near the Oval Plantation.
Siskin: 50+ in the Canal Plantation.
Comments
After a couple of mop-up operations, here are the final results (I've deleted the previous version) of my dawn-chorus cycling tours this week.
Song Thrush territories:
a.1, 9/10, 10/34, Clarence Gate, 12, 13, 14(3), 15(2), 17, 20, 22 (S end), 23, 24, 27, 28, 29/31, 42(2), 45 (E end), 49(2; N end) - total of 24.
Mistle Thrush territories:
a.21, 27 just NE of parking lot, 35/36, 50 just N of lookout - total of 4.
Let me know if you think I've missed any, Tony. I'll post any other Mistle Thrush territories I find but there can't be more than 1 or 2, given the fearsome competition/predation they suffer from magpies and crows, which share the same habitat. (I did see a Mistle Thrush chasing a magpie from its territory on Primrose Hill this morning.)
With so many BH Gull you should find me a Med Gull.
Grateful for the area-info, Tony. I'll keep an eye out for nesting Mistle Thrushes - last year two young had fledged in a.21 by early April!
Wish I'd taken the time to check for Meds among all the BHGs on the 18th but I was en route to find the Beardies - hopefully they will congregate again in large numbers on the playing fields in less frosty weather before they leave for their breeding grounds.