Three New Birds......

Sunday 30th March 2008

The clocks went forward during the night, which means British Summer Time has begun!! I have to admit it's been a lovely day here today and a bit warmer than of late, so I'm not complaining....


brambling

After a couple of none birding weekends, it was great to be back at Blashford today, and we even managed to see three new birds for the list.


grey squirrel

As usual, we saw and heard lots of woodland birds, but the waterfowl numbers have dropped. Also saw my first Brimstone butterfly of the year.

111. chifchaff
112. wheatear
113. little ringed plover.

Chiffchaff...Chiffchaff....Chiffchaff.......

Friday 6th April 2007

Easter Friday, blue sky and sunshine, just the perfect day for a walk in Keyhaven.

We were only out of the car two minutes when the birds started appearing. Blackbirds, robins, greenfinches, sparrows and gold finches all in the trees beside the carpark.

Walking down the inland path towards Pennington we heard a chiffchaff and eventually located it and took some photos, another bird for the list!


chiffchaff

We also heard/saw a couple of skylarks along the inland path and then walking across the field to the coast we saw three more on the grass.


skylark

The walk along the seawall back to Keyhaven produced some more birds for the list, black-tailed godwits, grey plovers and linnets.


black-tailed godwits and oystercatcher

On the way home we stopped at Tanners Lane and walking down to the beach we saw some beautiful wild primroses, violets and celandine and two more chiffchaffs by Sowley Pond.



96. chiffchaff
97. black-tailed godwit
98. grey plover
99. linnet