A nice 3 month break from birding, although 4 Redpolls visiting the feeders in the garden have been pretty cool.
A nice 3 month break from birding, although 4 Redpolls visiting the feeders in the garden have been pretty cool. Have spent the time making Dormouse tubes, for a survey in woods close to home. All 33 are now in place and marked in the GPS. My "targets for 2016" are all pretty dormant, or not present in the winter months so nothing really to do on that front either! However, the Spring has brought a few nice sightings: An early Willow Warbler during a trip to Devon at the beginning of April, and my first local morning walk round local horse paddocks was a cracker: Two hawfinches being the highlights. I have never known them to be recorded round the village in my time here, although they must fly over occasionally, as they are regular in the Test Valley and New Forest. Also a few Whitethroats singing (they love this field!) and an early Garden Warbler. Garden Warbler is a bird that often takes me well into the summer before I see one. Two Wheatear completed the highlights for a