It may seem a bit mundane reporting on the same walk around Eastville Park but its all we had time for and anyway there’s nearly always something interesting to see. Today’s highlight was definitely a tree creeper.
Tree creeper
We heard, and generally saw, robins all round the park. Early on we saw a goldcrest (sadly no photo) near Fishponds Brook.
A robin to greet us
Another robin half way round
On the lake there was a grey heron, a coot, a couple of moorhens, 6 mute swans, two Canada geese, lots of black-headed gulls and a couple of lesser black-backed gulls.
Grey heron
Mute swan
Canada goose
Moorhen
Black-headed gull
Lesser black-backed gull
A pigeon strutting its stuff
Crow
For the first time for a while we saw no cormorants but there were plenty of corvids, mainly crows and some jackdaws lurking in the trees and around the lake.
We saw the tree creeper along the River Frome. True to form it landed on the tree and made its way around the trunk out of sight. When it reappeared it hid frustratingly behind the small branches but then fleetingly gave me a chance to capture it. I’m sure my editing of the photos makes its stand out much more than we saw as its camouflage on the bark was quite amazing.
Tree creeper
On the way home we saw a jay, lots of magpies and several wood pigeons.
The other pleasing sight was the celandine which was quite prominent in the sunshine
A different robin to bid us farewell
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