A walk in the floods around the town and bird sightings on the 25/11/12

After lots of rain over this week and the weekend lots of the fields around the town have been flooded. Some of the main roads have also been flooded because we have 4 rivers around us and all of them have flooded.
When we went on the walk there was a lot of birds sighted partly because of the houses in the town as well as the flooded fields.

                                                              Flood photos
Bird sightings:

                                                                     Male kestrel

                                                                            Adult male blackbird

                                                           The rare Nuthatch

                                                                      12 canada geese  

• 30+ jackdaws
• 30+ carrion crows
• 30+ rooks
• 3 magpies playing together around the flooded river
• 300+ gulls feeding in the floods. Birds included herring, black headed, common and a few lesser black backed gulls
• 20+ house sparrows
• 15+ blackbirds which were sighted on the autumn walk which was included in the walk.
• 1 male kestrel
• 2 buzzards
• 2 dunnocks
• 30+ wood pigeons
• 5 collard doves
• 15+ gold finches
• A few green finches
• 30+ blue tits
• 25+ great tits
• 4 pied wagtail's feeding around the river and the pools of water
• A few territorial robins calling in several trees
• 100+ chaffinches- everywhere, feeding in several gardens and flying around the trees near the rivers
• 1 raven flew over the flooded fields
• 12 Canada geese- the geese from Berkeley power station have flown in land and landed on a very flooded river which they aren't usually sighted here. 
• 40+ Fieldfares
• 40+ Redwings
• 2 Gold crests calling together
• 1 Nuthatch feeding in a garden which usually gets a lot of thrushes in the trees.The nuthatch normally feeds and breeds in the forests but in the winter a few move from the woods to the gardens