Archive for March, 2014
- October 12, 2019 It's probably never even been to Kent
The Kentish Plover that I sort of forgot to go look at last weekend was kind enough to stick around for the whole week, so I was able to catch up with it in the usual spot on Southport Beach opposite the part of Pleasureland where in a different lifetime I used to operate the Log Runner. It was easy to find - a dozen or more green coats were lined up shoulder-to-shoulder behind tripods and it was the closest bird.
Read More…- October 19, 2019 Martin Mere
We started out searching the reedbed walk for Bearded Tits, but no luck today. There were at least 5 Cetti’s Warblers singing, though, as well as a chiffchaff. The sunshine also brought out a few Migrant Hawkers and we also spotted a Drinker caterpillar and a few Eristalis and Helophilus hoverflies.
Read More…- October 20, 2019 A white blob in the distance
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On a sunny but chilly morning I started at Fairclough’s Platform where a kestrel hovered over the parking-bay right up until the moment I had my camera switched on. On the reserve itself was the usual fantastic seasonal display of ducks, geese and waders, with a colour-ringed black-tailed godwit prominent amongst hundreds of its fellows. A scattering of ruff and redshank were present amongst them, and the whole lot kept twitchy by a pair of buzzards hunting worms along the fenceline as well as a heron flying over.
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