Foot It: Day 4

Today, a gentle (but very muddy) 3 mile stroll over a local farm that I've never actually birded before. It's owned by DEFRA but can be walked along fenced pathways.

The first birds that caught my eye were in a grassed stable area just off the road, 2 mistle thrush, 12 fieldfare and 3 redwing. Boom! 3 Foot It ticks straight away.

Fieldfare

Then after watching some rabbit a lovely roe deer wandered out into a field (bringing my Foot It mammal list to a paltry three!).

Roe deer

The usual farmalnd birds were in abundance, rook, woodpigeon, magpie, carrion crow and over a hundred jackdaw. The streamside alders held another Foot It tick, three goldfinch and on the way back the a couple of greenfinch brought my Foot It total to 48, which is 83% of the birds I thought I would be likely to see in January on foot. Not bad and two weeks to go.

Here's a map of the route I've taken on my walks so far totalling 26 miles.

And here's a marked up list of the birds I've seen so far.

1. Little grebe
2. Great crested grebe
3. Cormorant
4. Little egret
5. Grey heron
6. Mute swan
7. Canada goose
8. Mallard
9. Teal
10. Pochard
11. Tufted duck
12. Buzzard
13. Kestrel
14. Pheasant
15. Moorhen
16. Coot
17. Lapwing
18. Snipe
19. Black-headed gull
20. Lesser black-backed gull
21. Feral pigeon
22. Wood pigeon
23. Collared dove
24. Little owl
25. Short-eared owl
26. Kingfisher
27. Rose-ringed parakeet
28. Green woodpecker
29. Great-spotted woodpecker
30. Skylark
31. Pied wagtail
32. Wren
33. Dunnock
34. Robin
35. Song thrush
36. Mistle thrush
37. Redwing
38. Blackbird
39. Chiffchaff
40. Goldcrest
41. Great tit
42. Coal tit
43. Blue tit
44. Long-tailed tit
45. Nuthatch
46. Treecreeper
47. Magpie
48. Jay
49. Jackdaw
50. Rook
51. Crow
52. Starling
53. House sparrow
54. Chaffinch
55. Goldfinch
56. Greenfinch
57. Siskin
58. Bullfinch

Plus... egyptian goose, tufted duck, lesser-spotted woodpecker and stonechat.