Thought it best to start a new thread.
To now it's been odd sightings, occasional impressions and an old thread whose title was not strictly correct for where I bird watch.
Additional area related reports would be most welcome also, needless to say.
First of two posts, same route, one week apart, last week and this.
Date 03. April 2017
Evening 5pm to 7.40pm
Pleasant evening, bright to sun set, breeze from offshore.
Visibility was good.
Johnshaven to Gourdon, coastal path.
Birds in order from cemetery, Johnshaven to Harbour, Gourdon;
Ploughed field - Herring Gulls, Pigeon, Rooks, Carrion Crow.
Lane Cemetery to Lathallan - Blue Tit, Great Tit ;Pair on patrol, Yellowhammer, Robin, Blackbird, Countless Wood Pigeon, Lathallan - Rookery overhead, the company of a Wren four posts ahead and under tree cover, unmistakable rattle first alert to presence.
Waterfront Wairds Park- x 20/30 Turnstone (Pic) watched some turn the act of the seaweed flip in to an art form, x 2 Redshank, Eiders all along the three mile coastline. Black-Headed Gulls, Herring Gulls, Common Gull, Lesser Black-Backed Gull and Greater Black-Backed Gull evident also.
1/2 mile out of Johnshaven, x1 Ringer Plover (Pic) holding solitary station it appeared.
Burn of Benholm - x 5 Mallard with several more on foreshore. x1 Grey Heron (Pic x2) with several Cormorant, stationary and in flight.
Haughs of Benholm to Gourdon along the old rail line - Meadow Pipit, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Starling, Pied Wagtail, , another Wren, this time much more conspicuous on a fencepost, and Skylark.
Coastal path to Gourdon to end with light beginning to fade - Curlew (Pic) , Stonechat and numerous Collared Doves, well recognised residents from the top of village these past months.
To now it's been odd sightings, occasional impressions and an old thread whose title was not strictly correct for where I bird watch.
Additional area related reports would be most welcome also, needless to say.
First of two posts, same route, one week apart, last week and this.
Date 03. April 2017
Evening 5pm to 7.40pm
Pleasant evening, bright to sun set, breeze from offshore.
Visibility was good.
Johnshaven to Gourdon, coastal path.
Birds in order from cemetery, Johnshaven to Harbour, Gourdon;
Ploughed field - Herring Gulls, Pigeon, Rooks, Carrion Crow.
Lane Cemetery to Lathallan - Blue Tit, Great Tit ;Pair on patrol, Yellowhammer, Robin, Blackbird, Countless Wood Pigeon, Lathallan - Rookery overhead, the company of a Wren four posts ahead and under tree cover, unmistakable rattle first alert to presence.
Waterfront Wairds Park- x 20/30 Turnstone (Pic) watched some turn the act of the seaweed flip in to an art form, x 2 Redshank, Eiders all along the three mile coastline. Black-Headed Gulls, Herring Gulls, Common Gull, Lesser Black-Backed Gull and Greater Black-Backed Gull evident also.
1/2 mile out of Johnshaven, x1 Ringer Plover (Pic) holding solitary station it appeared.
Burn of Benholm - x 5 Mallard with several more on foreshore. x1 Grey Heron (Pic x2) with several Cormorant, stationary and in flight.
Haughs of Benholm to Gourdon along the old rail line - Meadow Pipit, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Starling, Pied Wagtail, , another Wren, this time much more conspicuous on a fencepost, and Skylark.
Coastal path to Gourdon to end with light beginning to fade - Curlew (Pic) , Stonechat and numerous Collared Doves, well recognised residents from the top of village these past months.
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