It can be a bit of an anti-climax coming back to the west coast after even a fairly quiet weekend over on the 'other side'. Don't get us wrong though we have our spectacles over this side too, you really can't beat a red dawn sky filled to the brim with Pink Footed Geese but that east coast is just so excitingly unpredictable.
The other day we were out on our early morning with Monty when we came across a small flock of about 10 Long Tailed Tits and a couple of Blue and Great Tits with them but also with them we heard a familiar sound last heard when one dropped over our shoulder and into a small Hawthorn bush near the Spurn Visitor Centre which promptly disappeared in to thick cover not to be seen again. We kept our eye on the flock moving through the remains of the old hedgerow but couldn't see the maker of the calls no matter how we tried. It was in there somewhere but we just couldn't get on to it. Still pretty awesome to get a Yellow Browed Warbler on the Patch. Our 50th species for the Patch this year. Other than that we've not seen much on the Patch recently and to be fair we've only really visited this first field early doors for quite some time.
An afternoon out with Wifey and Monty up country had us searching the woodland and riverside paths for any fungi that might have popped up after the recent wet weather. Sadly we found very little just a few manky bits of Turkeytail or similar bracket type fungi. In the end the best we could find was a stump with a cluster of Candlesnuff Fungi protruding from the top.
The woods weren't all that autumnal and were still mostly swathed with green rather than the rich colours of autumn. Almost right the way round the circuit we chanced upon a golden Norway Maple, at last a bit of colour.
Only a few yards further on another Norway Maple was still very much 'in the green'. Back at the car park another was bedecked in bright red leaves, some of which were lying on the grass after the viciousness of Storm Callum.
Yesterday we had a day in the garden with CP. Mostly we had our heads down cutting and stacking wood, preparing the pond for the winter, get down n dirty with a blocked drain and the like so we didn't notice too much but a sneezy wheeze heard high in the clear blue ether was the first ever Brambling (Garden #37) anywhere near Base Camp and then not too long afterwards that was followed by a couple of Rooks (Garden #38) heading south west, the first we've seen over the garden for three years. Minutes later a big flock of about forty Jackdaws going south east. Rarely see anything like that number over Base Camp.
The warm afternoon sun also brought out a Red Admiral and a Speckled Wood at Mossom Nature Field on Monty's afternoon romp later on. More than enough Wasps were on the wing too. Scary beasts that have hospitalised us on too many occasions!
Where to next? A safari somewhere out in the wilds on Friday followed by another a wee bit further afield at the weekend but will it be northwards or over on the Southside?
In the meantime let us know who's high up in the ether in your outback.
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