At last the wind had dropped, which made this mornings journey to work much more pleasent. Walking along Ashes lane towards Migrant Alley, BLACKBIRDS, SONGTHRUSH'S, and a WHITETHROAT were amongst the songsters, a SKYLARK joined in high above the greenhouse complex, and a BLUE TIT was observed taking food to its nest hole in the hedgerow. Whilst crossing between the Maize field and horse paddocks at migrant alley, I saw a group of 15 GREY LAG GEESE and 3 CANADA GEESE resting, and flyovers included a KESTREL, a HERRING GULL, a SPARROWHAWK carrying an unfortunate bird, and the first CORMORANT since the 4 of this month. As I walked on, through the college grounds, I heard another WILLOW WARBLER, two on my patch, wow thats is good!
Whilst at work, I brought to the attention of the dinner ladies a flyover GREY HERON, as we watched it I noticed that the PEREGRINE was just above and behind it - a bonus or what!
The afternoon was again spent listening around the scrub area by the lakes, songs heard included - WILLOW WARBLER, GARDEN WARBLER, BLACKCAP, CHIFFCHAFF, CUCKOO and TURTLE DOVE.
Orange Tip Butterfly -the first seen for a while
An unfortunate end to a Blackbirds efforts
Orange Tip Butterfly -the first seen for a while
An unfortunate end to a Blackbirds efforts
4 comments:
Hi Warren, thanks for the link back to my blog. Nice shot of the orange tip. You are lucky to get all these birds around your works, especially peregrine, must make for a pleasing working environment? Cheers, John
Nice Orange tip photo.
Hi John,
It's not all good. I tend not to write about the negative stuff going on, but there are a lot worse places I could live and work at!
Good Orange Tip! They never seem to rest for me.
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