Driving around the vale of Belvoir this lunchtime looking for bits of tweed I was struck by the numbers of birds beginning to form winter flocks. Rooks and Jackdaws were the most conspicuous with some Rooks apparently gathering twigs to repair and strengthen nests! Fieldfare numbers were high as were Redwings but as is usual with both of these thrushes they were very wary and I could not get close enough to get decent pictures. Blackbird numbers were quite high and one flock of a dozen birds were probably of the continental birds: long-winged and black-billed; very different to the usual Blackbirds.
Kestels were not forming flocks...but there were a couple of females working the roadside verges and unlike the thrushes they were so busy looking for food that my presence did not bother them too much and so I managed to get a few decent images of one of the birds.
We went to look for Common Buzzards on the road leading into Bingham and sure enough we found three sitting in a field and the nearest bird was carrying a large wing-tag which I think was numbered 11. All three birds skiddadled to the far side of the field and as I had no binoculars I couldn't really see the tag so I will go back tomorrow and see if I can get good images of at least one of the birds. I wasn't aware that there was any wing-tagging of Common Buzzards in this area.
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| Redwing Turdus iliacus feeding on Haws |
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| Redwing Turdus iliacus feeding on Haws |
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| Female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus hunting |
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| Female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus hunting |
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| Female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus hunting |
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| Female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus hunting |
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| Female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus hunting |
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| Female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus hunting |
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