Went for a short walk along the Aylesbury section of the Grand Union Canal around 2:30pm today as a kind of test drive to see how far along I could get in a short amount of time in part of my lunch break. Turns out I was rushing far too much and didn't need to worry.
There were quite a number of birds dotted around, but I didn't have the binoculars so went on what I could see and a lot of what I could hear.
The highlight for me was seeing quite close up in the trees just at the end of Northfield Court, a singing chiffchaff. There were many others but all distant calls, rather than this lovely view.
Several chaffinches were singing, one blue tit was performing very loudly, and a pair of great tits worked their way through the bushes along the canal.
There were around 5 moorhens, one of them on a nest, a coot, and a grey heron all on the canal itself.
I scared off a wren into the undergrowth just behind my house, and back near the chiffchaff spot, I watched (and listened to) several house sparrows in the bush just across the brook.
On the small stream just by the Askeys factory on Stocklake Road on my way back to work, there was a female mallard with 6 babies - the first baby birds I've seen so far this year (haven't really been looking recently though...)
Other birds included woodpigeons, carrion crows, rooks and magpies in varying numbers.
No sign of any sedge warblers which I'm looking forward to! Perhaps another time!
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