Skylark

Sunday 25th March 2007



This must have been the warmest day we have had this year, hopefully it will last and not go back to the freezing hail showers of last week.


male pheasant

We were walking part of the Solent Way today and heard our first Skylark of the year. We looked up and there it was high in the sky singing it's little socks off!



The trees and hedgerows were alive with tits, dunnocks, sparrows, wrens, robins, blackbirds, greenfinches, and we even saw a green woodpecker, kestrel and a beautiful male reed buntng. Pheasants on the lanes and rabbits, horses and a fox in the fields, plus spring flowers and blossom everywhere. On the coast were some brent geese, canada geese and lots of gulls including a couple of lesser black- backed.



92. skylark
93. lesser black-backed gull