Love kestrels. Wonderful it was so close. We used to get a lot of them, but the highways people cut all the scrub along the motorway and dual carriageway banks, so don't see them so often as that is where they hunted.
gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8970 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 24 2:45 pm Post subject:
I had a walk around the village. Trees full of sparrows and starlings, the odd seagull and crows doing acrobatics...must be more Wind on the way
We get some starlings, but not as many as we used to. I do sometimes hear a bush twittering as I pass, so must be full of hedge sparrows, and do sometimes see them. We get gulls and rooks, mainly in the fields after work being done, but some gulls have taken up residence down our local shops. We are about 15 miles from the sea, so not really seagulls any more.
gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8970 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 24 10:20 am Post subject:
Gulls move to the food.. unfortunately that is humans' rubbish...and there aren't so many fish in the sea
The ones at the shops might be there for rubbish, although on the whole this isn't a particularly dirty area. Think they mainly come for the pickings from the fields as this is semi-rural.
Went down to help at an activity centre in the New Forest yesterday and there was a deer out in one of the fields. Clear up work as they had some fallen trees. One of the trees; a medium sized oak had about half a dozen varieties of lichen on it. Really wonderful.
Have seen quite a lot of deer over the last couple of days. In our own woodland complex we have seen a group of 5 roe deer, which is more than we usually see in the woods together, although more have been seen together in the adjacent fields. Yesterday, where we were cutting birch, son saw a herd of about 20 fallow deer and we saw some more crossing the ride ahead of where we were having lunch. Couldn't see them properly but just the tops of their heads bobbing across the track.
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