February Bird Survey – Clendish area

Despite the rather overcast and damp weather today, we had 3 new FoTM members join us on the bird survey which was excellent.
Pete, Mark and I surveyed the southern most part of Tottenham Marshes. Mark (one of our first timers) brought his DSLR camera and captured the following images which was very impressive given the low light conditions – must have fast reflexes!

Dunnocks were singing well and chasing each other through the bushes.

Pete was surprised to see a Little Grebe near the ramp in the southern part of the channel – an unusual sighting for there. Mark grabbed the photo before Pete and I had even seen the bird.

We saw a small bird flitting along the metal fence on the far side of the channel and it eventually came into the open so we could see it was a Chiffchaff. Nearby, on a bush next to the allotments, our third Goldcrest gave us good views as it searched among the branches.

The part of the channel near the Waterside Centre often has Mallards, Moorhens and Black Headed Gulls but today unusually there were a pair of Teal. So this lovely little duck is the final picture of the day.

Debbie