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SteveC

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At last, after missing out on seeing one for years I've seen two in one week.
 

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SteveC said:
Good job I work at the observatory there isn it ;)
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.
 
I spent the whole afternoon scouring a local hot-spot for them to no avail. Did see a beauty of a stonechat, though!
 
Well done Steve - always a bird worth seeing. I remember during a brief spell living in Kent I found three in a small field by the University campus in Canterbury at about this time of year. Really smart.
 
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.
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
 
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.
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
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
 
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.
 
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
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.
 
Thanks, Andrew. I tried that too without any luck! However, from snippets I've heard it seems that that "lawn" may be a more reliable place to see them these days.

Jason
 
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.

Try now, but be prepared to try again (a) when they have large young in the nest or newly fledged young demanding lots of food, or (b) when they sing again to re-establish territories for their second brood (I've heard them sing again late May / early June)

Michael
 
Michael, actually you're probably right. A quick scan through past Devon bird reports suggests that they tend to arrive on Dartmoor in late March. It hadn't occurred to me that they might get down to breeding right away.

Jason
 
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