Pitstone Hill & Stocker's Lake.

With limited time again we decide to head to Pitstone Hill in Buckinghamshire. The aim is to try for the long staying Ring Ouzel.We find the car park & as soon as we get out of the car we find the Ouzel perched on a small tree yards from the car park,so a good year tick but we still spend over 2 hours watching the bird flying off & returning again soon after. Nice to spend time with Matt M on his local patch who gave us info on a couple of other places that we wanted to head too.
Off now to Stockers Lake Rickmansworth, the lake is the furthest away but not a bad walk.
The lake is scanned & we find just one Male Red-crested Pochard over the far side of the lake,that was our target so it's a year tick & we find that we are not far from Cassiobury Park so off we go to find ourselves a Little Owl.
It did not take long before we find the Owl in a large tree only yards from the car park.
A small time spent with the bird but before we leave it was nice to get a family onto the Owl as they had never seen an Owl before so nice.
The last place to visit as we head for home is Tyttenhanger G P. We know that there are Tree Sparrows here & we need them for a year tick after not seeing any at our usual spot at Dungeness a few days ago.
This turns out to be a long hard walk across some fields that were water logged in places.We find the feeders behind the builders yard & it's not long before a flock of ten or so fly out of the bushes & head away from us & we have to wait a while before a single bird lands onto the feeder in front of us.
We need to head home now as we are already a bit later than I should have been.

The Iceland Gull from last week.

A nice morning gets us 4 ticks each & that takes my year list to 164.

Little Owl

Pitstone Ouzel