Sunday, July 13, 2008 - Curlews in Cheshire, and mass carnage at home |
Final BTO survey of the year had a surprise in the form of singing Tree Pipits in the gap between North Baddesley and Chilworth. Some lucky residents in Valley park would be able to hear them in their gardens!
Spent a week camping in Cheshire, near the Welsh border and Wrexham. Birding highlights were a group of 4 Curlews regularly passing overhead, and presumably breeding nearby. Tree Sparrows were harder to see this year, but I managed one, plus a single Spotted Flycatcher. Also Purple Hairstreaks were easy to see at the top of a mature Oak tree.
Returned home to see a Collared Dove dead on the conservatory roof (presumably after flying into a window), and a Squirrel dead in the stream (presumably drowning a couple of inches of water) |
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