After a week of high temperatures well into the high 20s, it was really nice to walk around Linacre this morning in a still-quite-warm 19 degrees. It was still quite quiet, but one sign of the coming autumn and winter was a lovely flock of 12 Mistle Thrushes feeding on the Rowan berries, and the first Teal (3) since February.
Other waterbirds seen were: Mallard (106), Mandarin (42), Tufted Duck (9), Coot (8; 7 adults and 1 juvenile), Moorhen (18; 11 adults and 7 juveniles), Grey Heron (2), Cormorant (2), Great Crested Grebe (6; 2 adults and 4 juveniles), Little Grebe (1 adult on the top reservoir) and Grey Wagtail (2).
Other birds noted around the site were: Magpie (7, my highest ever count), Jay, Nuthatch, Stock Dove (heard), Woodpigeon, Great, Blue, Coal and Long-tailed Tit, Robin, Wren, Blackbird, Goldfinch, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Chiffchaff (2 singing and "wheeting" heard), Swallow (7 over the top reservoir), and House Martin (1 heard).
Just one butterfly, a Red Admiral, was seen, sunning itself on the dam wall.
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