tjbirdofprey
Dorset birder in Spain
going birding today (finally!!) the only reason i am posting is because i have got this gut feeling i am going to find a rarity:-O maybe a Goden eagle,monty harrier,Golden oriole or something much better
Spent a very pleasant hour at Martin Down this morning - eventually catching up with turtle dove in the car park - first I have seen in England for a couple of years, yet they used to seem so common.
Also nice yellowhammer.
Chris
nooooooooooooooo!!! how did you find Turtle dove?! man you are so lucky to see one!last time i went to MD me and my aunt couldnt see them but we could hear them:C ARRRGH i must be rubbish........
oh and good photos:t:
Actually they were harder than i thought. I pent about 40 mins walking up to the mounds and back and only heard them on the way back to the car. When i got to the car park one was calling well but i couldn't see it, then it moved, flew round in a circle, clapped it's wings and perched for a good 10 mins in view where i could sneak through nettles to see it.
A really tough bird, but if you don't get it in the next few weeks it will stop calling and be gone.
yesterday night went to the back of ferndown school(on the heath)my aunt told me she had a lot of them there a few years ago......none were seen though:C but at least we came one step closer(we heard em churring)i wonderwhy they were not flying?? it was a bit chilly with only a few clouds in the sky(wrong time?) do i have to wait for a humid,cloudy night to see these buggers!..........
also we got there for 9.15 and stayed to 10.40.....
presume you mean Ferndown common. I was thinking of trying there just to avoid Holt heath. Glad I'm not the only one having problems!
Off out of county for a few days now....don't you dare to have a rarity here whilst I'm gone....unless it's near Lyme on Wednesday!![]()
oh my god whats that on the horizen! a gyr falcon!! what a flat tick:-O
no one been out lately?
Probable Arctic skua from Hengistbury yesterday. Watched for about 10 mins but as with family only had binos and it just didn't come close enough. Would have been nice for the year list. Such is life.
What else could it have been? Unless you're stringing a Pom, which have been reported from Hengistbury recently. Tick it as a skua - I didn't even get skua sp last year!
hatch ponds on Springwatch at the mo i didnt know terapins have been seen there also once a caimon!!!