Port Meadow Birding

A morning run was early enough to catch what will probably turn out to be the sunniest part of the day. There was plenty of bird life in Burgess Field NR though it was the usual common residents. On the Meadow itself the recent rain had refreshed the flood area though there was still no standing water. Nevertheless the plants that have grown there and which had been looking decidedly limp have perked up. This seems to have done the insect population a lot of good also because the flood area was teeming with birds. There seems to have been another influx of pied wagtails passing through and there were also the usual meadow pipits and linnets around. There were also ten snipe in total, most of which were unusually along the flood line. There are twenty or thirty black-headed gulls around, many of which are often to be found sitting in the dead tree in the river by the poplar trees.