A beautiful sunny day, but very cold as the wind veered around to a north-easterly direction. The garden thermometer was reading 6.3°C, but add in the wind-chill factor and it was considerably colder.
Main highlight today was not one but 2 Mistle Thrushes in Penns Wood. Its not often you see this species on the island, so a good couple of birds to start the day off.
Here are my sightings:
Perryfields Butterfly Reserve: 6 Long-tailed Tit
Penns Wood: 1 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Firecrest, 30+ Long-tailed Tit, 2 Grey Wagtail and 2 Mistle Thrushes
Church Ope Cove: 12 Rock Pipit, 1 Pied Wagtail and 2 Wrens. Out to sea a few Gannets.
Church Ope Cove Wood: 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest and 1 Sparrowhawk
Also noted was a Pheasant in the new Bumpers Lane Estate
Here are a few images from today:
Good to see two Chiffchaffs overwintering in Penns Wood. This is Chiff#1......
..........and Chiffchaff number #2
Not a sight you see often a Grey Wagtail perched in a tree.
At the bottom of Penns Wood a Goldcrest feeds in amongst the Brambles.
Also in the wood a Long-tailed Tit.
At the back of the cove just the one...................
One of the twelve Rock Pipits on the beach today.
It might have been around 6°C, but it was warm enough for a couple of wall Lizards in the grounds of St Andrew's Church.
And the lizards weren't the only ones out in the sun in the church grounds. This is a German Wasp sunning itself.
Mammals Recorded: Grey Squirrel
Birds Recorded: Gannet, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Pheasant, Herring Gull, Wood Pigeon, 12 Rock Pipit, 1 Pied Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, 2 Mistle Thrush, 1 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 5 Goldcrest, 2 Firecrest, 36+ Long-tailed Tit, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow, House Sparrow, Chaffinch and Goldfinch
Reptiles Recorded: Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis)
Wasps Recorded: German Wasp (Vespula germanica)
Flies Recorded: Kelp Fly (Coelopa frigida)
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