Wildlife watching hopes for 2015 (originally posted onto Birdforum)...
Wildlife watching hopes for 2015 (originally posted onto Birdforum)...
I have a couple of targets for the year:
1. First is well overdue, and is to see 100 species in a day in UK, (without twitching to make it a little harder). I'm surprised I've never managed it before to be honest. Looking thru my records I've seen 87 on a couple of occasions. So, towards the end of April / early May I'll go out with the sole intention of racking up numbers, and putting this to bed. I should also attempt this within a 20 mile radius of my house, but this shouldn't be too much of a handicap as it includes all the likely target areas, Coast, Keyhaven, Newforest, Farmland etc.
2. I hope to eventually (not in 2015!) see all European "regular" species, (again without twitching to make it a little harder). I have a week in Lapland that should edge me 3 species closer all being well. (2 of which have currently been present in the UK in the last week!)
3. I have a fantasy target of reintroducing Tree Sparrows to Hampshire via a daisy chain of strategically placed bird feeders! but the closest colony I have found in Wiltshire is still 10 miles from the border, so can't afford the required bird food and feeders!
Rest of my time is spent hoping to find something good, and maybe making more use of my trail-cam, and bat detector.
I have a couple of targets for the year:
1. First is well overdue, and is to see 100 species in a day in UK, (without twitching to make it a little harder). I'm surprised I've never managed it before to be honest. Looking thru my records I've seen 87 on a couple of occasions. So, towards the end of April / early May I'll go out with the sole intention of racking up numbers, and putting this to bed. I should also attempt this within a 20 mile radius of my house, but this shouldn't be too much of a handicap as it includes all the likely target areas, Coast, Keyhaven, Newforest, Farmland etc.
2. I hope to eventually (not in 2015!) see all European "regular" species, (again without twitching to make it a little harder). I have a week in Lapland that should edge me 3 species closer all being well. (2 of which have currently been present in the UK in the last week!)
3. I have a fantasy target of reintroducing Tree Sparrows to Hampshire via a daisy chain of strategically placed bird feeders! but the closest colony I have found in Wiltshire is still 10 miles from the border, so can't afford the required bird food and feeders!
Rest of my time is spent hoping to find something good, and maybe making more use of my trail-cam, and bat detector.
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