Wind breezy, sun shining. The perfect backdrop for a good day’s birding at Emsworthy Mire DWT Reserve. Kicking off with a tremendous tree pipit, these birds are well known for their parachuting display. As it climbed higher and higher, it then opened its wings and ‘parachuted’ down, only beginning to flap when inches above theContinue reading “A Wild Goose Chase (Or Is It?)”
Monthly Archives: May 2021
Fledgling Shock
In our garden and local area, we have discovered many different breeding birds, a lot of which we can completely confirm. House sparrows, wrens, blue tits and possibly long tailed tits, due to their numbers here. But this evening, we had a whopping new edition to the list. Earlier this season, we noticed a groupContinue reading “Fledgling Shock”
The Mistaken Moorhen
The constant rain showers had given up for an hour and we decided to head for Stover Park. As we exited the car park, a blackbird swooped low over the needle littered undergrowth and came to rest by a drainage ditch. Sticking it’s beak deep in the soil, dirt flew from the hole it hadContinue reading “The Mistaken Moorhen”
Garden Birds: Sunday 2nd May 2021
Discovering nesting birds is rapidly becoming more common here. The early nesters, such as the robins, have already fledged and the parents are being worked tremendously, feeding the ravenous balls of fluff. I am pleased to say that we have (possibly) got blue tits in one of our nest boxes, this fact based on 2Continue reading “Garden Birds: Sunday 2nd May 2021”
The Bovey Birder 