Warm, dry and sunny, NW 2 - Scotney front fields this morning held the usual array of wildfowl and waders including 1,000 Lapwings, 500 Wigeons, 100 Greylags, 80 Barnacle Geese, 50 Teals, 30 Shovelers and 500 Starlings, plus three Ringed Plovers, five Redshanks and several each of Curlew and Oystercatcher. A walk outback revealed 200 Pochard and Tufted Duck on the lake by the farm, 10 Corn Buntings, two Marsh Harriers, Common Buzzard, two Great White Egrets and singing Skylarks amongst hundreds of corvids, gulls and Stock Doves. At Pigwell a Grey Wagtail was on the sewage plant along with a few Pied Wagtails and Meadow Pipits.
As we`ve moved into February I thought it would be pertinent to pay homage to the wild swans before they departed back north. Out on Walland two small flocks comprised a distant 35 Bewick`s at Dennes Lane, plus 12 Bewick`s and five Whooper Swans at Midley that were much closer to the lane. Once again few passerines were noted en-route. On the way home four Cattle Egrets were still in the paddocks along the Lydd Road, while a pause at Cook`s Pool revealed a lone Brent Goose and a distant Peregrine hunkered down in the Boulderwall fields soaking up the sunshine.
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