I started today's visit by checking out the model aircraft field which is currently being used for grazing sheep. It was absolutely alive with birds both on the ground and along the hedgerow with large numbers of Redwings, Fieldfares and Starlings present as well as 2 Corn Buntings and c.100 Linnets.
After a while everything went up in the air and quickly cleared out as a female Merlin went through low heading towards Stanklyn Lane. I quickly headed down to Stanklyn where a picked up the Merlin again briefly before it flew over the lane and headed towards Spennells.
Still present at Stanklyn was the huge Linnet flock that today numbered around c.1200 Linnets. This number is varying from day to day with the flock splitting at times into smaller flocks and can number anywhere between 500 to 2500 Linnets. This could perhaps corelate with why there is sometimes a flock of c.1000 Linnets a couple of miles up the road at Podmore/Elmley Lovett and similar at Woodrow.
Fantastic. Love liners 🙂
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