Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Eastwood sewage works - 6:00pm

High concentration of swallows in the rain, with more than 200 present over the sewage works and woods. Less than a dozen house martins though. Also, 2 juv grey wagtails, 5 pied wagtails, and a dipper, chiffchaff, blackcap and green woodpecker at Jumble Hole.

3 comments:

Jeff Cox said...

I had about 50 Swallows over the fields behind our house this morning - we are about a mile away from Eastwood so possibly some of same birds?? I've never seen this many Swallows here and they even flew into the garden while feeding. It was a busy morning with 6 Mipits on the garden wall, a large flock of finches on the feeders (but no Redpolls yet) and a Willow Warbler in the apple tree.

Chris Elliott said...

Saw an impressively large number of Swallows feeding on New Lane at Sowood on Tuesday.

Chris Elliott said...

Saw an impressively large number of Swallows feeding on New Lane at Sowood on Tuesday.