A beautiful, frosty with
not a cloud in the sky winters day (very rare so far this winter) produced a
few bits and improved counts from a walk along the River Severn from Cressage Bridge
to Ironbridge including the highlights of a wintering Common Sandpiper (recorded
over-wintering in four of the last ten winters), 14 Mandarin, an excellent total of 60 Goosanders (a new record for me for this stretch of river) and a
pair of Peregrines on the top of one of the now defunct cooling towers at
Ironbridge Power Station – the male was calling loudly having just brought in
some prey which the female was eating.
Other birds included a 1st winter Great
Black-backed Gull at Buildwas with other Gulls, 12+ Teal, a decent flock of 34
Skylarks at Cressage Bridge and my first couple of drumming Great-spotted
Woodpeckers of the year.
Mandarin
Goosander
Record shot of the wintering Common Sandpiper
Nuthatch
Peregrines on the Power Station
Quite a distinctive Buzzard
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