Wednesday, 18 January 2017

STANTON PARK NEW YEAR VISIT

A somewhat belated first visit of the year to Stanton Park. Sunny and well above freezing  (6 degrees)  so drove over to reaquaint myself with some of the birdlife there. A pleasant addition to my usual records was a kingrfisher fishing in one of the smaller ponds. 

Birds noted included:
dunnock,
robin,
blue tit
great tit
marsh tit
coal tit
jay
magpie
blackbird
moorhen
kingfisher
mallards
nuthatch

coal tit

kingfisher

kingfisher


one of two nuthatches

at least 3  around the feeders


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