Spoof report from Sussex (4 Viewers)

[PYRTLE]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1823725115303190662

This surely is not footage from the UK?

 

[Mono]

Seems to come from a legit source.

 

[Stuart Goodwin]

Morning.

A flock of 70+ White Stocks were seen in two fields in East Kent on Tuesday (from memory).

Regards

 

[Phil Andrews]

Seems to come from a legit source.

Not sure that's how I would refer to the Knepp project 🤔🤣

 

[Richard Prior]

Not sure that's how I would refer to the Knepp project 🤔🤣

They speak very highly of you Phil!

 

[Southern Viking]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1824777875989434385

 

[Richard Prior]

Has anyone reported whether these are ringed birds (ie. Knepp project-related) or not? Here in France it's peak migration period at the moment...........

 

[Paul Chapman]

No suggestion that these are anything other than the wandering Knepp birds boosted by 33 fresh releases:-

Young Storks Begin New Life at Knepp - Knepp

On 7 August 33 young storks took their first flight into the wild, joining the colony of white storks – the first in Britain for over 600 years – that have established themselves at Knepp. The White Stork Project is a collaboration between Knepp, Wadhurst Park, the Roy Dennis Wildlife...

knepp.co.uk

All the best

Paul

 

[Southern Viking]

I was talking to one of the volunteers there a few weeks ago and he said a good few young had fledged there this year too. According to him some of the original birds brought from Poland were injured (eg from flying into power lines), but are kept in an area of Knepp with no public access and behind an electric fence, and build their nests on the ground because they can't fly. Some of the young fledged there every year come from them, as well as the ones nesting in trees that everyone can see.

 

[Southern Viking]

Also in addition to the sightings above, 70ish in Cornwall on 21st August

https://twitter.com/x/status/1826349630948606231

 

[Southern Viking]

And 40ish over coastal East Sussex 3 days ago

https://twitter.com/x/status/1828753399476822483

 

[Southern Viking]

It's also become a bit of a regular thing this time of year in recent years, that wandering flocks are seen in Sussex and down SW to Cornwall. Could be that the odd European bird gets caught up with them, but a fair amount of them are from reintroduction programs too. Here's a recently fledged juv from there this year anyway