very healthy number of swifts this am, over 3 dozen over the west bank, early morning heat combined with the sheep droppings bringing a source of a large flying breakfast, and silent too ,no screaming birds
two birds this am, of similar appearance and characteristics of Wagtails, bobbing rear up and down while grounded shortish flights and same sort of call , colouring was the only query, pale brown wings with shortish black tails, breast of a very pale creamy pinkish brown, with a very white rump,....3 common sand also, ... all these were on the west side of the res,
Around 80 Canada geese these last two days,13 mute swan, and a build up of Coot well into the 200 number, and a very healthy amount of wagtail and have been all summer
nothing seemingly out of the ordinary,but among a group of some 15 - 20 wagtails, ranging from "the norm" through pale grey in plumage, there was one with a very fair dusty in colour breast, large black bib and what appeared to be a sort of lemon coloured head where normally would be white in good light around 08:00 at the s/w area of the res
went down the lane toward the River Axe this morning, and one rather dowdy male Bullfinch visual chest was a very dull russet/brown. and 3 others audible, and 4 Jays, and very noisy at that, have seen a few singles around the Cheddar Village this week, is there an upsurge in population of this bird, usually never see one
arrival of around 8 Tufted duck ,5 Pochard among the gathering of Coots and a possible female goldeneye ,though slightly out of reach for positive id, the colour the bird was carrying a rich brown head or mauve ,the strong sun was making things slightly unsure , it seemed to be paired with another duck of just brown and white indiscriminate markings but the beak was quite long on this bird