The Breeding Season

As from now until the end of the breeding season birds of a sensitive nature will be omitted from this blog due to a small percentage of undesirables who take their pleasure from egg collecting, nest destroying and the killing and trapping of birds.
Reports of non breeding birds moving through the area will still be published. BS
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Sunday, March 20, 2011

A Murky Soil Hill

Thought with the strong SW>5 and the mist and drizzle there was sure to have been a Wheatear or two dropped on Soil Hill but after an extensive search of the whole of the hill, end to end and top to bottom I can safely say there are none. The track from Ned hill and the western hillside was alive with Meadow Pipits which encouraged me even more but I had to go away disillusioned.
At least it saved Keith Moir putting his boots on as he pulled up just as I was leaving and on hearing the outcome he headed off to another venue.
Its down to you now Nigel to get one during the week!

c200 Meadow Pipit
2 Grey Partridge
5 Skylark
1pr Reed Bunting
1 Kestrel
c 300 corvids, 60% being Jackdaws
BS

1 comments:

DJSutcliffe said...

They must be here somewhere by now Bri. I tried hard at Cold Edge and Hunter Hill this afternoon for Wheatears without success. You did well with the mipits, good to see them back.