Weather - mild with showers.
Portmore Lough - bluetit, long-tailed tits (flitting back and forth all afternoon), tree sparrows, great tit, blackbird, juvenile pheasant & male pheasant, collared dove, cormorant, magpies, black-headed gull, sparrowhawk, buzzard, rooks, chaffinches, coal-tits, fieldfare (my first of the season), water rail caling, golden plover calling, mallard, woodpigeon, goldfinch, 2 greylag flying but no sign of the main flock.
Oxford Island - mallard, magpie, tufted ducks, ruddy ducks, gt crested grebe, pochard, black-headed gulls. I was surprised at how few birds there were about.
Kestrel on motorway.
Posted by dawnc at October 24, 2004 06:19 PM