My house is bisected by an OS grid line. To the East are gravel pits water meadows. This is quite productive for birds. Yesterday brought 4 Pintail, 100+ Wigeon, 100+ Teal, 30+ Gadwall, 3+ Chiffchaff down at the sewage works and a GS Woodpecker. MH and I paid a visit to Bury Down in the afternooon and saw a minimum of 6 Short-eared Owls in perfect warm sunshine weather quartering the scrub and fields around the gallops. Cracking views. I love the way the light catches their primaries as they wheel around.
Then today and to theWest of the grid line to do my BTO square. Two hours of slogging around mostly mono-culture and the A34. A bit sole destroying with a paucity pf species compared to the East. Nice treecreeper though and about 20 Stock Doves. Up to 84 for the year. Trip to Norfolk next weekend so the list will gain some respectability!
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