Walked to Adel Dam today – haven’t been for a while. The first hide was busy and the feeders needed refilling so not a lot about. Usual blue tits, great tits, long tail tits, chaffinch, moor hen and mandarin duck. At the second hide it was the same apart from a bullfinch in the trees. Rather disappointed, I walked around the outside and was rewarded with a Redwing.
This is not my own picture – one taken from the internet for illustration purpose. As you can see it looks like a thrush but has red under its wing. So it was worth any while. Then I walked back over the fields to Pauls pond where there were some very fine swans and tufted ducks. Then just as I was about to leave I spotted a flash of incandescent blue as a kingfisher sped past.
Always jealous when I hear that someone sees an elusive kingfisher!