Leaving Alex I went back to the broom fields and waited for the Wheatears to wake up and make themselves known, and for the Sand Martins to start flicking overhead. I waited quite a long time. Instead I took more than a few photographs of Skylarks as we need some for a new web-page on them. A couple of small woodpecker seekers turned up a little while later, and one of them got their arm twisted to take me to Shoebury for an Essex Shorelark tick which would be absolutely nailed on.
Note the Shorelark consorting happily with these Sanderling |
Im in for the 36 hour day !,but only 6 hours allowed for work !.
ReplyDelete5.40 is bloody early! Specially on a weekend! Thankfully things don't get going here till 7.30 or so & with dvd's going on then, I can piss off to the patch for a couple of hours guilt-free! Racked up about 5 hours on patch this weekend for the princely sum of 2 stock doves! Thats kwality patch-birding!
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