A late-afternoon visit to my old patch at Alciston made me happy – in the tiny reedbed I used to keep an eye on, a single Common Snipe, at least a dozen Reed Buntings going to roost, and half a dozen Yellowhammers in the nearby hedgerows (with perhaps twice that number in surrounding fields). Good to see that it’s still, in relative terms, a prime spot.
Elsewhere around the fields to the east of the village, quite a few Common Gulls, plenty of Pheasants, and not much else.
On The Street, near where it meets the Old Coach Road, our car disturbed a Sparrowhawk which had been busy disembowelling a Woodpigeon.
Filed under: photographs, sightings | Tagged: alciston, common gull, common snipe, reed bunting, sparrowhawk, woodpigeon, yellowhammer
