Port Meadow Birding

A late afternoon walk through Burgess Field and back across the Meadow in gorgeous golden autumn sunshine found a few birds of interest. There was a noticable passage of swallows and martins overhead with perhaps 100+ birds in total. There were about 30 lapwings on the Meadow which took flight along with 3 GOLDEN PLOVER. It's nice to know that the plover are happy to congregate on the Meadow still in the absence of any water. A "winter" flock of 30 odd linnet were buzzing around the Meadow. In amongst the cattle there were at least 25 YELLOW WAGTAIL feeding away at the feet of the animals. There was not much of note in Burgess Field itself apart from a juvenile pheasant skulking in the undergrowth.

Three SNIPE were reported as being flushed from just north of the former flood area (MBG).

A linnet