Ring Ouzel: This week I find myself in the big smoke, London helping out another team on a project down here doing a range of breeding bird surveys. After the long drive down and doing the surveys I decided to go see some cracking local ring ouzel before beaching in to my hotel.
Totteridge is a lovely little village on the outskirts of London in the borough of Barnet. It has a rural feel with a pretty village green, a cricket pitch, some pleasant local countryside and a nearby nature reserve to visit.
There were two males and a single female in a small area that the locals call 'wheatear corner' that where forging close to an open gate. They weren't partially shy and ocssaiionally aligning upon a nearby tree and pulling worms out of the ground.
The weather down here was perfect for a spot of post-work birding, T-shirt weather has been a nice alternative then the long vantage point surveys of recent months, clad in fleece, jackets and waterproofs.
