Brookie's Diary
• Friday, April 11, 2008 - Digley Area
| Back on to the moors. On arrival the weather didn't look good, so I settled in the car and had dinner first slowly seeing the weather getting better. I kitted up and the first bird seen was a Short Eared Owl quartering the moor close to the car and then landing on the road side post, what a start. Walking along the footpath birds started coming Wheatear (2), Male Stonechat, Pied Wagtail, Red Grouse, Meadow Pipits too many to count. Lapwings and Curlews abound in the fields. Scanning the walls, I soon found a male Ring Ouzel busy preening with a female close by. I was distracted by the familiar call overhead of a Raven. On looking up I saw it was busy mobbing a Common Buzzard with another raven close by. Another Buzzard flew overhead has I returned to the car. Not a bag full of birds today but the quality was great. |
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