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buzzy
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 17 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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After having tried to visit one site two Mondays running, and having been rained both times, we altered our venue this week, and we got fog instead of rain! But that didn't put us off, and we had quite a successful walk. It started with quite good views of a Water Rail skulking in a ditch next to the carpark. Then it was out on to the wash bank, and we walked, and dodged the sheep droppings (and occasionally the sheep), and looked to see what was about.
We saw lots of swans - mainly distant Bewick's and Whooper, with a few Mute as well. We had good views of a Stonechat, and the were a lot of Meadow Pipits fluttering around the grass by the path. A few distant predators, including Buzzards, and a Hen Harrier (which I failed to see). Assorted ducks loomed in the distance. When we got back to the carpark, a Kingfisher provided the last sighting.
Here is a distant Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus), seen through the fog:
Hoping to get to that other site next week, so don't be surprised if it rains!
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Mistress Rose
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buzzy
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 17 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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Well, last night it rained, and this morning I woke to fog, so I had some doubts as to whether we would get out. However, no texts, 'phone calls or emails told me of cancellation, so I went out for my lift at the usual time and place, and off we went.
We saw assorted skeins of geese flying (and honking) over head. There were several Buzzards, including two perched on a pile of straw bales, looking, as far as one could tell at the distance, rather fed up. There was also a mystery bird, seen only in silhouette, at a distance, that seemed to have a crest, raising hopes of a Waxwing, but those intrepid few who went for a closer view didn't get a good sighting, I suppose it has to go down as a Waxwasn't!
We did, however, see what we went to see, the Scarlet Elf Cup (Sarcoscypha coccinea):
These were very young specimens, and coyly hiding beneath dead leaves, unlike the ones we usually see at a different site which burst proudly through the moss.
If we had got to this site earlier (cancelled twice because of rain) we probably would have been to early,
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