A little bit of RR
Today our birding had focus! - we went out to bird with the intention of gathering some Roving Records for the BTO Atlas. And what a pleasant way to spend a few hours on a sunny Autumn day. We wandered along Back Lane Roman Road, typically English countryside. Back Lane is a bridleway so no traffic apart from walkers and horseriders (we only saw 4 people and 1 horse over the 5 hours we were out!). The pathway is bordered by open arable land, hedgerows but very little sign of human habitation.
Back Lane Roman Road
The most numerous bird of the day was Fieldfare - at nearly 400 birds they even outnumbered the Woodpigeons! Lots of Long-tailed Tits moving along the trees and the usual Blackbirds, Robins, Blue Tits and Great Tits. A single Marsh Tit was nice as was a small flock of Bullfinches. A Yellowhammer was spotted pecking about on a ploughed field. We only saw 1 Greenfinch and in the 3 tetrads (2km x 2km squares) we passed through we didn’t see a single Dunnock.
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