Waiting for Spring
Spring can’t come quickly enough at this time of year. But right now, it definitely feels a long way off. A few walks around Bath recently have failed to produce a hoped-for Chiffchaff and the weather is definitely still very wintry. It’s been a quiet winter here all-round bird-wise. A Yellow-browed Warbler reported online at Weston Recycling Centre early in the winter, just down the road, failed to show despite me putting in a decent amount of time searching for it and winter thrushes have been very thin on the ground – and winter finches non-existent. The main highlights here this winter have been my first sighting of Tawny Owl in Victoria Park, my first Rook and also a Kingfisher downriver at Green Park early on in the winter. Best of all, has been enjoying the Pied Wagtail roost in Southgate Shopping Centre, sometimes containing several hundred birds, all silently sitting in the trees in the middle of the busy shopping centre. A section of the Pied Wagtail roost outs...