Grrr! I envy people like you who are on the spot, Martin Cade is another one at Portland Obs. A nice bird I shall go for next month when they should be easier to see on Dartmoor.SteveC said:Good job I work at the observatory there isn it
Hi Andrew,Andrew said:Grrr! I envy people like you who are on the spot, Martin Cade is another one at Portland Obs. A nice bird I shall go for next month when they should be easier to see on Dartmoor.
Andrew said:Grrr! I envy people like you who are on the spot, Martin Cade is another one at Portland Obs. A nice bird I shall go for next month when they should be easier to see on Dartmoor.
You can afford to wait a week or so, Andrew! I was up at Vitifer/Soussons on Friday and totally failed to find any. Other people had better luck- they saw just one, at a vast distance.Michael Frankis said:Hi Andrew,
I'd go now if you can, while they're still singing / displaying - in a month's time they'll be on eggs and very hard to find. They should all be in now, 'specially down south there.
Michael
Thanks for the tip off. I saw a male attending a nest in a tree last May and assumed this meant it was easier to see them in May. Will get down as soon as I can.Michael Frankis said:Hi Andrew,
I'd go now if you can, while they're still singing / displaying - in a month's time they'll be on eggs and very hard to find. They should all be in now, 'specially down south there.
Michael
There was a report of a pair at the bottom of the slope running away from the picnic tables. At Warren House that is. I was there last week too and did not see any at all.Bluetail said:You can afford to wait a week or so, Andrew! I was up at Vitifer/Soussons on Friday and totally failed to find any. Other people had better luck- they saw just one, at a vast distance.
Jason
Hmmm . . . makes me wonder if they're already on eggs down your way. Dartmoor, they should be in by mid March. They're usually arriving up here at the end of March, and I've seen them carrying food off for chicks as early as the start of May. That gives a Northumbs egg-laying date circa mid April, and I can easily believe they'd be a couple of weeks earlier down your way.Bluetail said:You can afford to wait a week or so, Andrew! I was up at Vitifer/Soussons on Friday and totally failed to find any. Other people had better luck- they saw just one, at a vast distance.
Jason