Today we left the front door and headed towards Barningham Winter. It was decidedly chilly and overcast for most of the walk so insect life was thin on the ground. Luckily there were lots of flowers and birds to look at.
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| A carpet of Bluebells |
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| White Bluebell |
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| Periwinkle |
Birds of note:
Red kite x3
Common buzzard x6
Treecreeper x4
Nuthatch x2 (heard only)
Great-spotted woodpecker
Swallow x3
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| Barningham Winter church |
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As we neared Barningham Winter church a sad and worrying sight greeted us - a very poorly blue tit on a bird table. Only yesterday I'd read an article about a mystery illness hitting blue tits in Germany. The bird I saw today was displaying all the symptoms: eyes closed, beak open, disorientated and showing no fear of man. I alerted the house owner to the situation and advised them to stop feeding the birds for a week and to clean all their feeders and tables etc, which is the current advice.
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| Poorly blue tit |
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