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Yesterday (Thursday) and Eleanor came across two Woodcock around the edge of The Hill field on the Blueberry Farm complex.
This morning (Friday) Eleanor was at Hockerhill Farm which is on a small upland plateau between Wilby and Mears Ashby (no public access). Grassy paddocks and thick set berry-laden hedges provides good habitat for a variety of birds. At the moment there are large numbers of migrant thrushes and Starlings and today two very vocal first year Ring Ouzels were in with them.
Eleanor was further rewarded with her dog-walking and bird feeding chores at Harrington Airfield this afternoon when she was treated to sustained views of a stunning adult male Hen Harrier hunting the top fields and rough areas. Smeagol the spaniel also flushed up another Woodcock!
What was intended as a taster, low key introduction to ringing at Scotland Wood on the Kelmarsh Estate today spiralled somewhat with 112 birds of 14 species being caught and processed from just two mist nets. This total was made up of a Jay, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, a Blackbird, six Nuthatches, eighteen Great Tits, twenty-five Blue Tits, twelve Coal Tits, six Marsh Tits, nine Long-tailed Tits, six Chaffinches, a Robin, three Wrens, twenty-two Goldcrests and a Treecreeper. Other birds on-site included at least three Bramblings, a handful of Siskins and a couple of Redpoll.
Regards
Neil M
Yesterday (Thursday) and Eleanor came across two Woodcock around the edge of The Hill field on the Blueberry Farm complex.
This morning (Friday) Eleanor was at Hockerhill Farm which is on a small upland plateau between Wilby and Mears Ashby (no public access). Grassy paddocks and thick set berry-laden hedges provides good habitat for a variety of birds. At the moment there are large numbers of migrant thrushes and Starlings and today two very vocal first year Ring Ouzels were in with them.
Eleanor was further rewarded with her dog-walking and bird feeding chores at Harrington Airfield this afternoon when she was treated to sustained views of a stunning adult male Hen Harrier hunting the top fields and rough areas. Smeagol the spaniel also flushed up another Woodcock!
What was intended as a taster, low key introduction to ringing at Scotland Wood on the Kelmarsh Estate today spiralled somewhat with 112 birds of 14 species being caught and processed from just two mist nets. This total was made up of a Jay, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, a Blackbird, six Nuthatches, eighteen Great Tits, twenty-five Blue Tits, twelve Coal Tits, six Marsh Tits, nine Long-tailed Tits, six Chaffinches, a Robin, three Wrens, twenty-two Goldcrests and a Treecreeper. Other birds on-site included at least three Bramblings, a handful of Siskins and a couple of Redpoll.
Regards
Neil M
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| Coal Tit. |
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| Goldcrest. |
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| Jay. All above images courtesy of John Tilly. |
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| A small Toad that needs to quickly start hibernating! Image courtesy of Jim Dunkley. |
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