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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Monday, April 25, 2011

Dip Meter, Ring Ouzel 3 BS 0. Soil Hill

                                  Ring Ouzel alley but not for me.
                                       Colourful male Linnet
                                       Meadow Pipit

Soil Hill was a different world tonight from last night with a cold NE>4 and hazy visibility.
No gull movement at all although the hill was alive with Swallows moving in no particular direction.
I went up, again for Whitethroat and Ring Ouzel, both of which NK assured me this morning that they were still there and waiting for me.
I eventually got onto the elusive Whitethroat after 30minutes of it teasing me with short outbursts of song until I finally got a 30 second sighting.
The third attempt at the Ring Ouzel turned out to be a mega dip after trudging round and round the soil piles and up and down the clay extraction area so I think I can forget this one and move on.
Back to work tomorrow but a nice short week and then we,ve to decide on Friday whether to sit and watch the royal wedding or go out birding, thats going to be a hard one !

11 Linnet
1 Whitethroat
6 Wheatear
usual mipits and skylarks
umpteen Swallows
BS

3 comments:

David said...

Get out birding Bri, Lynda can video the wedding to watch over night if you are keen......

Brian Sumner said...

Get out birding is the right answer, think Ill give the video a miss, I can watch the replay when they get divorced,and apart from that the reception will probably be out shooting deer, birds and anything else that movers. You guessed it, Im not a royalist.

DJSutcliffe said...

I will be out birding too - no doubt about that!