My busy schedule continues with a trip to Waddington Air Show.  I am not a plane buff but I do enjoy going to these shows and this one did not disapoint, even though it took two hours of queing to get through the gates.  Never mind.  The highlight of the day was a Vulcan having its first flight after being rebuilt by enthgusiasts.  This plane was never going to fly again but the enthusiasts mange to get money together to get the girl flying again and it was a privalage to watch it flying again.  The Euro Fighter and Spitfire did an 'old - new' demo which I thought was brilliant.  The Vulcan also did a fly-by with a Lancaster.  The Lancaster then teamed up with a Spitfire and a Hurricane to form the Battle of Britain formation.  Living in Alrewas we see this formation quite often as they are always showing over the Arboretum.  Other planes included a Chinook helicopter, Apache Gunship and Tornados.  All in all an excellent day.

Golfing today but I did manage to walk the dogs arounf Whitemoor and the birds I saw were Wren, Carrion Crow, Yellowhammer, Corn Bunting, Skylark, Common Whitethroat, Swift, Linnet, Stock Dove, Wood Pigeon, Tree Sparrow, Jackdaw, Starling, Dunnock, Blackbird, Magpie, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Black-headed Gull and Kestrel.

I have decided to give Norfolk a miss this year and, instead try a spring visit.  i am going to have a week visiting my family in Ramsgate and have had an idea of going down to Dover and pop over o France for a couple of days on my push bike.  Around Calais there is, apparently, some good birding.  Other places I am not sure on.  If anyone out there could give me any ideas, places or hints then please contact me on this blog or on my email welshweasels@aol.com.  Thanks.

I managed to limp around the square after an early call out and saw Grey Heron, Skylark, Mallard, carrion Crow, Common Whitethroat, Cormorant, Yellowhammer, Wren, Blue Tit, Linnet, Starling, Corn Bunting, Swallow, Stock Dove, Chaffinch, Swift, Wood Pigeon, Common Tern, Magpie, Jackdaw, Robin, Collared Dove, Mute Swan, Yellow Wagtail, Reed Bunting and Tree Sparrow.  On the way home I stopped off at he rather duckless quarry pool and added Canada Geese, lapwing, Pied Wagtail, Ringed Plover, Sand Martin, Oystercatcher and a Garden Warbler warbling away in the wood over the road.  

8.00 am to 6.30 pm working so all I could muster was a walk around the river with my dog (oh and a quick pint beforehome).  Birds I saw were Starling, House Sparrow, Wood Pigeon, Blackbird, Swift, Wren, Mallard, Black-headed Gull, Grey Heron, Great-crested Grebe, Dunnock, Magpie, Collared Dove, Mute Swan, Sedge Warbler, Carrion Crow and Moorhen.