Today was spent between Liss and Standford (where the parenticals live), Standford being where lunch was provided... :-)
Bright sun and blue skies all day and free food to boot - a good day methinks.
Between the two locations I notched up a fairly good list of avian species, including a few exciting (for me) ones...see the coloured entries...
Final count for the day:
Blackbirds (male and female)
House Sparrows (male and female)
Robins
1 Chaffinch
1 Wren
Collared Doves
Wood Pigeons
1 Blue Tit
1 Great Tit
Magpies
Jackdaws
1 Green Woodpecker
1 House Martin, and.........
1 Buzzard
:-) not bad for one country garden, walks down local roads and a brief riverside stroll eh?
I also heard but didn't see a Pheasant.
And on the way back in the car from the parents we almost (but thankfully didn't) ran over a very cute baby rabbit - it was just sitting on the edge of an A road, apparently unaware of the danger! - can't think it will last long if it continues doing that...! It was really tiny though, bless it.
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Hmm, that's 2 I haven't got on my year list yet - though I hope it won't be too long before I see a Martin of some kind.
ReplyDeleteI think Thing said on his blog, most London birders seem to be seeing raptors every time they look up at the moment. Not even a Sparrowhawk for me lately :-(
This time of year and this weather is great for migrating/moving raptors... I've not had a great deal of luck tbh.
ReplyDeleteAs for rabbits by the side of the road oblivious to everything around it, its probably got mixymatosis (sp?) - they lose their hearing/sight.
Myxomatosis- a fun man-made disease to control rabbit populations in a slow an painful way... It was used in Australia because some rubbish colonials thought it would be nice to see some cute bunnies hopping around to make them feel more at home. No natural predators bla bla same old story meant far too many bunnies, and so the obvious solution was to introduce some eye-melting ear rot disease...
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis
Stepping away from the soap box now.