A short 1:30pm walk only up to bridge 16 along the Grand Union Canal proved quite fruitful.
Of note were 2 distant buzzards wheeling over the pylons, and a chiffchaff singing away just by the Oakfield Road. In the hedge leading north from bridge 16 was a calling greenfinch and at least 4 blackbirds (all male).
On the canal itself were 4 Canada geese, 8+ mallards and a single, very tame mute swan, along with 2 coots and 2 moorhens and a grey heron.
The best treat of the walk, after watching a pair of great tits in the near bushes along the canal, was a pair of bullfinches that landed just ahead of me, then flew off and circled back to hide further along the hedgerow.
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