BIRD NEWS:605

 

As I continued my trek and neared its completion, I walked along the former highway back into my village and spotted some dovecotes and either white show pigeon or doves flying and flocking. I managed to get one shot of these before heading home.

This would have been a shot of a magpie in the tree outside my bedroom window - but I don't have a good camera at the moment, so it is a blurr instead.

My next hike, a day after the last, was taken with Liz. We went on a Highdown loop taking different tracks again. We spotted a flurry of around 6 long tailed tits - too fast to even get my camera out the bag and this...'blurr'...

...that we THINK was a goldcrest.

HERE is a link to a video of swans and some other WWT videos.

This was also a goldcrest - for sure - but it shot into the bush and out of sight before I got my camera aim right - I did see the crest for certain though, this time.

Watch a baby bird be born - HERE.

This is my list of birds seen this year - it might have included a woodpecker, but I only heard rather than saw that - so far:

blackbird

bluetit

buzzard

dunnock

farm goose

gold crest

jay

longtailed tit

magpie

robin

seagull

skylark

song thrush

sparrow

starling

wood pigeon

 

BIRD NEWS:604

 

One is allowed to 'exercise outdoors with one other person', so Liz and I have been taking some local rambles recently, so we can catch up without breaking the Covid lockdown laws. On one trip, we trotted off to Poling, past a couple of frozen ponds, past the house where Winnie The Pooh was written, and across the A27 into Angmering Park Estate where we looped around and came out on Swillage Lane, passing Goggles.

The two photographs above, both depicting Goggles, were taken on the next trip. On this occasion, we went along Swillage - passing Goggles en route - and did a loop around Angmering Park Estate.

HERE is a link to article about local garden birds.

When I next passed Goggles' pond with Liz, Goggles was hiding. We proceeded to take our ramble, but there was no chance of a good shot for the blog this time...

...just a peek-a-boo head-up...

Liz and I did hear and spot a skylark on our next hike though. However it was too far for my new camera to get a picture.

HERE is a link to an article about owls.

February's second week arrived and my first hike was solo. I did the 2hr Swillage-Patching loop, passing Goggles on the first half of my walk. There was a little snow lain about, but not as much as I had hoped when I heard it was forecast.