The Yellowhammers and Bullfinches just to the south of Bampton were pure beauty and the bullies were busy feasting on the emerging spring buds that the farmland hedgerows are producing, these particular hedges had thankfully escaped the attentions of the flail hedger.
My garden has played host for some months now to an oddly marked Blackbird with a white forehead and it has again been prominent and I hope it will nest close by, this bird has been in the vicinity of a rather handsome and melodic Song Thrush that has several Snailing anvils nearby. Rather more unusual as a garden species were the recently visiting Ravens that spent the biggest part of the day filching any tit-bits they could lay their beaks on and showing well both in my own, and my neighbours gardens, there were four in total.
Today Tuesday 2nd April was interesting in that the heavy rain meant I felt ok about abandoning the work that the garden requires to bring it up to scratch. Travelling to the Dix Pit area I was pleasantly surprised by a flock of some one hundred Golden Plover and managed a few poor quality distant photos. The rain had replenished the puddles and Meadow Pipits were bathing in them. The last birds I saw today in the same area were a flock of Fieldfares numbering in excess of two hundred birds.
The Oxon Feather.
Bathing Meadow Pipit
Song Thrush
Blackbird unusually marked
Ravens
Yellowhammer
Bullfinch
Village Alpaca I think
Far distant Golden Plover
Far distant Fieldfare
