28th 6 longtailted tits in the garden flitting around, 2 goldfinch, 2 blue tits, 2 great tits and a cole tit. It is sunny ans warm.
At the nature reserve we see swans, lapwings, cormorants, herons, gulls, mallards, starlings and a snipe.
Snipe
" So lonely his plaint by the motionless reed,
It sounds like an omen or tale of the dead." ...James Hogg
Snipe ( Gallinago gallinago ) A secretive bird that fly's in a zig zag motion in loose flocks called "wisps". Breeds in more land and bogs or low-lying marshes. Eats from wet ground worms and insects. Lays 4 eggs.
30th September ends with another sunny hot day of 28 deg - a few days of an Indian summer.
