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Something different was seeping into the cracks of winter and with discernible warmth from welcome sunhine, 'chirrups' passed west overhead, corpses of heron and of curlew lay bereft under skies with skylark. I curl my lips.
The majority of redwing and fieldfare have taken their energy to other other haunts and the scrub seems quiet.
Sixteen brent geese were feeding on arable land just to the south of New Pit 5 today, 2 dark bellied amongst them, and a flock of 32 pink footed geese passing overhead gave me 4 species of goose as the canada and greylag also checked out the Reserve. This flock of brents were reported to me yesterday by GPC and on both dates hae shown an interest in the same field.
A grey plover was feeding on Chowder in the company of only 2 lapwing and a single bar tailed godwit. Chowder still looks like a jack hammered car park.
All Pits are still totally frozen over so apart from the few mallard and a couple of teal in the ditch, 8 coot and 7 wigeon on the River we are short on wildfowl.
A message from my friend, code name 'Mrs Bipbap', alerted me to a treecreeper in the Humber bank hedgerow and Mandy West added a goldcrest to the tough gang of little ones that have survived.
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