A male Teal landed on the river near Rosshall High School this lunchtime. Although I occasionally come across Teal in adjoinging 1km squares, I have found this species to be extremely rare in my own 1km square with only one other record in the twenty years I have been surveying wildlife hereabouts. Also present today were at least three singing Coal Tits (they have suddenly become much more vocal), two calling Great Spotted woodpeckers, two calling Nuthatches, three Stock Doves, a Grey Wagtail and three Lesser Black-backed Gulls (the numbers of Herring and Black-headed Gulls locally having much declined recently).

 

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