It had to happen

Its that time of year again

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enjoy

16-02-2016

A little bit of white winger action at the farm today.

25-10-2015

Autumn migration is slowly enveloping the farmlands. With the Prof finding a Dartford Warbler a couple of days ago, Short-Eared Owls coming through on their travels and a firecrest enlightening us for a day. It feels like it should bring something ' Mega ' at some point...

20 - 09 - 2015

A couple of snaps from the last week or so

02-09-2015

With my arm having gone into full retard mode and its a struggle to work at the mo i decide a midweek visit to the farm was well in order. I couldn't take the normal camera set up and had to settle for the 300mm jobbie. Even still i forgot the converter. With news that pied flycatchers have decide to occupy every part of the country i went with high hopes of finding the odd flycatcher or two. Bumped into swifty and he had had a spot fly by the hide so i decided to have a wander around 100 acre. There were two spotflys fighting over one tree when i got there. The fighting only stopped when a hobby kept buzzing the tree they were in. One spot fly obviously won as the over fecked off across to the railway track trees. The hobby whilst showing its amazing aerial ability almost lost out to a peg which passed so close to me that i could hear the wind as it went in for the attack!!!! It try to snatch the hobby from the sky above the lake but missed, the hobby much to my amazement then turned mid air and appeared to kick the peg in the head - amazing. The hobby kept me amazed for the next couple of hours with small interruptions made by a cuckoo ( possibly 2 for the day ) as it would fly around 100 acre being mobbed by crows.

31-05-2015

Got a call from Nick on Sunday to say that he had a pair of Black-necked Grebes on the Northern Lake. Now normally when i go to see Black-necked Grebes they are normally 15 miles away and just appear as dots, so it was a real privilege to see them so close.

18-April-2015

With the warm weather passing over to a stiff North East wind we are expecting coastal life to be blown towards the farmlands. What i wasn't expecting was another influx of raptors. There has been 4 Marsh Harriers ( all cream caps ), over 30 Buzzard, the majority seem to be going straight North West so I'm guessing they aren't local birds and 5+ Red Kites. With the recent explosion of Pallid Harriers in Northern Spain I'm hoping it won't be to long till one of them pops along.