Catforth

Seven set out for a walk along country lanes round Catforth, under grey skies. We enjoyed a nice sighting of a kestrel early on. A flock of thrush-like birds flew over – there was conjecture they could have been redwing, but we didn’t get a good enough look at them, before they went out of sight. A small skein of 7 pink-footed geese also flew over. Unfortunately the rain which had been forecast, came in earlier than expected, which rather put a dampener on things, and the birds were few and far between. We did get a nice mixed flock of finches – chaffinch, goldfinch and greenfinch. There was also quite a variety of fungi in the verges and under the trees. We also spotted a hare lying down quite still in the grass. As the rain wasn’t letting up, we cut short the last bit of the walk, and returned early back to the village hall.

Species: Great tit, Blackbird, Blue Tit, Pink-footed Goose, Kestrel, Jackdaw, Chaffinch, Goldfinch,
Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Pied Wagtail, Magpie, Common gull, Lesser Black-back, Collared Dove,
Long-tailed Tit, Woodpigeon, Crow, Coal Tit, Starling
​Hare