firstreesjohn
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And then there was nothing ?
Slipping out (quite literally, along the muddy track) to an undisclosed location ‘off’ the north coast, I was hoping to do even better than this morning’s Red-flanked Blacktail, at a place akin to Jampond.
However, it was much more like my trip to Poland (last week), in many respects, in the notable lack of things- almost birdless.
I have seen on other threads the absence of expected migrants: I saw only Spotted (no Pied, Red-breasted nor Collared) Flycatchers, despite having been given two almost 100% sites for the latter, no Nightingales (nor their Thushy cousins), no Rosefinches, no Turtle Doves, no Bluethroats, no Whinchats and few Redstarts and Red-backed Shrikes.
I did walk around and through an awful lot of fishponds, deciduous, coniferous, mixed, arable, meadow, marsh and montane habitats. This is more than worrying: where are they ?
That said, I did have good time and saw some good birds (pix to follow), in lovely scenery, with good, cheap food and friendly people and will post a trip report in a short while (linked from here).
Slipping out (quite literally, along the muddy track) to an undisclosed location ‘off’ the north coast, I was hoping to do even better than this morning’s Red-flanked Blacktail, at a place akin to Jampond.
However, it was much more like my trip to Poland (last week), in many respects, in the notable lack of things- almost birdless.
I have seen on other threads the absence of expected migrants: I saw only Spotted (no Pied, Red-breasted nor Collared) Flycatchers, despite having been given two almost 100% sites for the latter, no Nightingales (nor their Thushy cousins), no Rosefinches, no Turtle Doves, no Bluethroats, no Whinchats and few Redstarts and Red-backed Shrikes.
I did walk around and through an awful lot of fishponds, deciduous, coniferous, mixed, arable, meadow, marsh and montane habitats. This is more than worrying: where are they ?
That said, I did have good time and saw some good birds (pix to follow), in lovely scenery, with good, cheap food and friendly people and will post a trip report in a short while (linked from here).
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