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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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Dotterel search Soil Hill

                                                Ideal Dotterel habitat

              Next time you see this photo there,ll be a Dotterel on it!

A quick p.m. visit to Soil Hill on the 3rd anniversary of the last Dotterel give or take a few days proved fruitless and very hard going in the howling ENE>6 gusting 7.
The habitat is ideal around the edges of the summit for a stop over bird but now very hard to bird with hills and trenches everywhere ideal for a bird to loose itself in.
The skies were quiet tonight with the wind detering any movement apart from Swallows piling through >SE.

2 Grey Partridge
3 Skylark
2 Wheatear
73 Swallow
1 Heron + usual mipits and corvids.
BS

2 comments:

DJSutcliffe said...

Well done for giving it a try in that wind Bri.

AndyC said...

Nice one Bri,,Im having problems with Nigel blogg can you ask him to send me a new invite...thanks...Bloody hell Bri those Raptor photos are tough.....very tough.