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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Farnboro John" data-source="post: 1712040" data-attributes="member: 36432">Got out Saturday morning.  I left the house not sure where to go and was nearly at Winchester on the M3 before I settled on starting with the Gosport Ring-billed Gull.  He was present all right but sitting on the mud in Haslar Creek along with an adult Mediterranean Gull, and not prepared to get off his bum and come to bread. I picked up a few trash year-ticks like Curlew, Ringed Plover and Brent Goose, gave up after an hour and a half and drove over to Harbridge where the ten Bewick's Swans were miles away across the meadows.  I couldn't see the Great White Egret from the Harbridge road but picked it up immediately from the small pull-off up the main road about 200 yards North of the bridge: also miles away.I stopped at Deadman Hill to look for fallow Deer and unexpectedly flushed two from the gorse fringing the road - they were too quick for my camera, stotting away across the heather and round an arm of the ridge.I moved to Nomansland for a raptor watch and was eventually rewarded with a couple of Goshawks about over Salisbury.  By now (1400) I felt it was probably breakfast time and headed home.Sunday afternoon I popped up to Moor Green, where Rabbits were out early enjoying the sunshine and a Grey Squirrel was flicking his tail in annoyance at the Little Owl.  I watched the feeders near the hide for a while, hoiping for Brambling (no joy) but getting both Bank Vole and Wood Mouse in the stick pile under the bush-hung feeders.I was really hoping for an early performance from the Barn Owls and I got it, but they didn't come anywhere near me so no pix.A Red Fox that scooted into bushes while I was roaming the brook after dark with my camera, looking for him and his cohorts, closed the day with another mild touch of frustration.John</blockquote>

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