string boozel
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I had a morning stroll around Brookfield Plantation and the fields around Gretton and managed to see a few bits and bobs. The coniferous portions of the wood were rather dull with Coal Tits, Goldcrests and Chaffinches noted. Other parts had a more varied selection with several warbler species including Garden and both of the commoner woodpeckers.
A large field full of sheep had attracted a few Red Kites wheeling and circling and presumably hoping that one of the flock might keel over and give them a brekkie bonanza. The kites were joined by a few buzzards and one Raven. Nearby the flooded quarry held two pairs of Dabchick and a singing Sedge Warbler which was my first local one. A Swift seen a few minutes later was also a Corby year tick, they don't appear to have returned to Corby village this year.
The surrounding fields were surprisingly sterile with none of the usual farmland birds present although the hedgerows seemed to support healthy numbers of Whitethroats. On the return walk through the wood another Raven flew over pruk prukking softly.
Two mammals of note were Fox and Fallow Deer while butterflies seen were Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell, Orange-tip and Speckled Wood. Large numbers of St Mark's flies droning around too.
James.
A large field full of sheep had attracted a few Red Kites wheeling and circling and presumably hoping that one of the flock might keel over and give them a brekkie bonanza. The kites were joined by a few buzzards and one Raven. Nearby the flooded quarry held two pairs of Dabchick and a singing Sedge Warbler which was my first local one. A Swift seen a few minutes later was also a Corby year tick, they don't appear to have returned to Corby village this year.
The surrounding fields were surprisingly sterile with none of the usual farmland birds present although the hedgerows seemed to support healthy numbers of Whitethroats. On the return walk through the wood another Raven flew over pruk prukking softly.
Two mammals of note were Fox and Fallow Deer while butterflies seen were Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell, Orange-tip and Speckled Wood. Large numbers of St Mark's flies droning around too.
James.