A summons to Dorchester for none Wildlifing reasons could not have been on a worse day weatherwise, and while the images may appear to show a fine front it was far from that!
YELLOWHAMMER
singular en-route did kick the morning off in fine form but from Monkey's Jump there was not a bird to be seen. Shifting down to
singular en-route did kick the morning off in fine form but from Monkey's Jump there was not a bird to be seen. Shifting down to
MAIDEN CASTLE
at first glance appeared to paint the same picture until a couple of
at first glance appeared to paint the same picture until a couple of
COMMON GULLs
appeared out of the ever increasing rain.
Apart from Black-headed Gulls not one of the hard won other species reached double figures withLINNET
almost breaking the trend with a count of just 9
and
SKYLARK
checking in at c4.
checking in at c4.
It was a full hour before the first
GOLDEN PLOVER
put in an appearence
and then only c3.
However, there was a Bright Side to all of this as apart from the Black-heads
all othe specise mention were additions to the
Year List!
Year List!
PS - how annoying then to find a report of 400 on the Dorset Bird Club Website the very next morning!