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Yesterday was cloudy and warm(ish) but clear skies overnight with a resulting heavy frost were going to cause a big change in bird activity this morning. The fields and marsh areas in Maridalen were covered in ice and there was hardly a thrush to see. With the clear skies any viz mig was so high that it was only mig.<\/p>\n
During the course of a morning and afternoon visit though I did chalk up a fair few species. I heard my first Dunnock of the year, a flock of 12 Twite flew over, 3 Meadow Pipits were feeding on the stubble fields at Kirkeby and rarest of all two Rock Pipits flew low over calling whilst heading north.<\/p>\n
It clouded over during the afternoon and there even was a flurry of snow but this didn\u2019t stop Pink-footed Geese migrating with 6 flocks totalling 880 during the course of half an hour. I also had three Buzzards up in the air and a 2cy Goshawk hunting Wood Pigeons (this was different to yesterday\u2019s bird as it was not missing a primary).<\/p>\n
I also revisited \u00d8stensj\u00f8vannet and connected with the male Pochard this time \u2013 probably helped that the frost had caused a significant reduction in the areas of open water.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n