Monday, April 2, 2007 - Golden Plovers at Farley Mount |
Was looking after the children today, but did manage two nice sightings: both Plovers, both from the car!:
En route to the dump a Little Ringed Plover was feeding on the edge of a very small puddle at the entrance to Casbrook Common where I took a wrong turning! and at Farley Mount (Pitt Down to be exact), there was a very impressive sized flock of Golden Plover circling high over the fields. A very rough estimate would be about 400. My first Golden Plovers since moving south, and well overdue. Suspect they had been disturbed from a field that was being ploughed and contained a few Crows, Lapwings, Gulls and Buzzards. Quite a sight.
Farley Mount looks like another good area, with a mixture of Woodland, grassy hillsides, and farmland.
Stopped off on the way home to check out a lake near Ampfield.. guess what? You can't see this one either! However, I've been looking at Sparsholt College on the maps, and a footpath runs past their fishing lake, plus the area looks quite open, so I will maybe try that in the future. Also Tow lakes near King's Sombourne looks like they could be visible from footpaths.
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Monday, April 2, 2007 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by Tom Jordan |
I think it's great that you're doing all this local watching to try and find birds in the area. Lots of us are quite lazy and would always pick a day at a well known coastal location than some time along the Test or on the downs. But the rewards can be just as good as you are proving. Unfortunately (well not really unfortunately) I’m off to Mallorca next weekend for a week so will miss some of the main migration period. Hopefully you’ll be able to find a few Wheatears on Baddesley Common!
Best Wishes,
Tom
btw, I'll be visiting Emer Bog sometime this week to survey for Woodcocks, two weeks ago me failed to find but hopefully as the season progresses they'll become more obvious. |
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Monday, April 2, 2007 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by Anonymous |
| Also you may well like to check out a pair of Garganey on the floods by Timsbury Gravel Pit, they were there on saturday morning but I haven't heard of any reports since. |
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