Black's Moor Hill - Tue 9 Apr

With the weather being pretty poor today I stayed fairly local and took a drive around the area known as Black's Moor Hill just to the south of Somerton. I had first come across this site a year or two ago when there had been a couple of singing Quail. Obviously it was too early in the year for these game birds but I thought I see if anything was about. There seemed to be Yellowhammers just about everywhere, which was wonderful to see, and I counted at least a dozen birds. Two flocks of Linnets were also encountered, one numbering some sixty birds, whilst the second was slightly small with around twenty birds together with a similar number of Chaffinches. A couple of Skylarks were heard singing and another was seen, and some Fieldfares were still about, with some thirty birds feeding in one of the fields. So nothing that unusual, but it was refreshing to see some good numbers of "traditional" farmland species.