The main highlights of my 3 hours there (7:00am - 10:00am) were 4 large flocks of Redwing (21, 33, 45 and 36) and my first Kestrels here with a pair which flew over the hide.
On the farm itself there were 8 Meadow Pipit in the field next to the car park, along with House Sparrows, Starlings, Chaffinches, Pied Wagtails, a Grey Wagtail, Collared Doves and 5 Robins.
As I was leaving there were 4 Greenfinches and 3 Fieldfare feeding in the Hawthorn Trees down the lane towards the main road .
Birds Recorded: 1 Mute Swan, 1 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 12 Pheasant, 3 "black" Pheasants, 2 Red-Legged Partridge, 1 Water Rail, 1 Moorhen, 5 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Stock Dove, Wood Pigeon, 8 Collared Dove, 9 Meadow Pipit, 2 Pied Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, 5 Fieldfare, 135 Redwing, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Goldcrest, 3 Long-tailed Tit, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Wren, 2 Jay, Magpie, Rook, Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, 12 Starling, 20+ House Sparrow, 8 Chaffinch, 5 Goldfinch, 5 Greenfinch, 7 Bullfinch and 1 Reed Bunting.
Also 4 Roe Deer and 2 Grey Squirrels
The sun is just coming up 7:15am. Sunrise today was 7:55am
One of the "black" Pheasants on the Reserve
The usual shot of two male Bullfinches, hidden by the branches.
A chirpy male House Sparrow
And another
A Grey Wagtail joins the farm birds.
A Buzzard has two Jackdaws escorting it away from the farm.
"Jenny" Wren
As I was leaving there were 3 Fieldfare in the lane.
An unsurprisingly as I stopped the car they flew off.