Foot It: Day 3

A twelve mile yomp to the Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Wisley today. Hopefully to add a few more woodland birds to my Foot IT Challenge list which stood at 35.

I was lucky enough to add 8 more, starting with a eurasian coot on the small golf course pond that previously held a pair of tufted duck and a grey heron on the nearby river bank. A flock of black-headed gulls in a ploughed field also contained a lesser black-backed gull. Next new addition was a eurasian treecreeper on an oak outside the gardens.

The gardens themselves are a bit bare at this time of year but there is a bird hide overlooking a bend in the River Wey from where a common kingfisher put in a brief appearance while a party of eurasian siskin fed in the alders above.

The feeders were busy with eurasian nuthatch and a single coal tit.

25 Miles walking and 43 species in total. Now I need to find a large lake!

Eurasian nuthatch

Eurasian siskin

Great tit

European robin