Peter Jones, "Hampshire Diary"
• Saturday, April 25, 2009 - Keyhaven
Up at 5am! out by 5:30am. Weather looking foul as advertised, with lashings of rain.
Arrived at Keyhaven at 6:15am to be greeted with blue skies and scorching sunshine!
I don't think I can blame the weather on not seeing much out of the ordinary this morning. As we know, it is in the lap of the gods whether we have a blinding day or not. The seawatching crowds down the road from me also had a (relative) stinker too this morning.
Still, Keyhaven was deserted.. not a soul about, except for the very occasional jogger. The first thing that struck me was that there seemed to be a few Whimbrel about. 6 got reported by someone else, which sounds about right. They were very mobile and very high profile, so it felt like more.
Plenty of other Waders including Greenshank, 1 Bar Tailed Godwit amongst the Black-wits at Fishtail lagoon, and bird of the day: a near Summer Plumaged Spotted Redshank. Also really close up views of Little Terns, lots of Sand Martins, a couple of Wheatears, a Lesser Whitethroat singing, and several Cetti's Warblers singing. Was put on to a Little Owl on a perch.. Wonder how many times I have walked past that one before!
Made a brief recording of a Lesser Whitethroat singing.. one of my favourite sounds of Spring:
http://www.surfbirds.com/blog/uploads/p/petermk/15458.wav |
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