Wednesday 4 May 2022

A new bird

 It's finally happened!! A Black-winged stilt has turned up!! During a promising day on the mound with good Hirundine and Yellow Wagtail movement the highlight so far had been a Cuckoo which landed on Hangmans. Having to go home to finish some work, the phone goes off, the name displayed is ZACH!! Uh oh!! this boy is turning into one of the best birders i know and normally when he phones it's good news. Well he and Anand had bumped into this beast in the South East corner. The last one was in 1955!! What a tick - well done boys










Monday 25 April 2022

Duelling Wheatears

 Came across 3 Male Wheatear today. Lots of territorial bravado with dive bombing each other and an almost constant ' chack ' call. A good hour in their company 








Saturday 23 April 2022

Guess who's back

 Well here we are. Its 2022 its migration and a new crew have appeared at the Farmlands. 

But today belongs to Bar Wits








A few other bits and bobs - this Kestrel now seems to follow us as we walk across the mound


Maybe only 1 Skylark on the mound 


And a nice Wheatear