The wet weather strategy!
The wet weather strategy!
Lots of overnight rain, and continuing throughout a miserable Bank Holiday Monday. Checked out the Horse paddocks first thing, but not much about, just two Juvenile Stonechat. So I decided to head to Keyhaven, a location that has been kind to me in awful weather before with a Grey Phalarope found in torrential rain.
Today started really well, with an Osprey over Fishtail, and struggling to head out across the Solent. Next bird was a Raven. Wasn't really expecting many airborne highlights in the bad weather, and these turned out to be the only good sightings in the sky! Everything else was at ground level trying to shelter.
Plenty of Waders, including a good number of Black-tailed Godwit, and Dunlin. Best birds today were a Juvenile Little Stint, 20+ Grey Plover, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, and a Whimbrel. Also, somewhat bizarrely, I saw my first Wheatear of 2014 today!
Lots of overnight rain, and continuing throughout a miserable Bank Holiday Monday. Checked out the Horse paddocks first thing, but not much about, just two Juvenile Stonechat. So I decided to head to Keyhaven, a location that has been kind to me in awful weather before with a Grey Phalarope found in torrential rain.
Today started really well, with an Osprey over Fishtail, and struggling to head out across the Solent. Next bird was a Raven. Wasn't really expecting many airborne highlights in the bad weather, and these turned out to be the only good sightings in the sky! Everything else was at ground level trying to shelter.
Plenty of Waders, including a good number of Black-tailed Godwit, and Dunlin. Best birds today were a Juvenile Little Stint, 20+ Grey Plover, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, and a Whimbrel. Also, somewhat bizarrely, I saw my first Wheatear of 2014 today!
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