Today was really warm - 16 degrees in Bournemouth. Its only 8th of March for goodness sake!
But at least the floods are beginning to recede. Barn Owls will have suffered for certain, and what happened to the voles, and even the earth worms?
Meanwhile I saw my first Red Kite for a while - early spring and birds begin to move around - so I wonder where this one was heading to. Not a regular sight here yet but perhaps it will be before too long. Only last Saturday i saw one from the motorway just east of Basingstoke - and not the first time I've seen one there.
Another first today was a Brimstone butterfly - our vet Keith said he saw one toaday and reading Mark Avery's blog I see he found one as well - so a widespread emergance for this spring insect. Just hope we dont get snow now!
Saturday, 8 March 2014
Friday, 28 February 2014
Lapwing
On Monday (24th) I heard the first Lapwing call for the spring and on investigating found a pair back on the territory on the Stone Curlew plot.
What will be interesting this spring is whether the adjacent 19 acres of downland recreation reseeded late in October (with brushed seed from the RSPB's farm at South Newton, and before that from Tytherington Down) and as a consequense being nearly bare at present is whether we get extra pairs - and maybe even a Stone Curlew on the Stone Curlew plot!
Wait and see.
What will be interesting this spring is whether the adjacent 19 acres of downland recreation reseeded late in October (with brushed seed from the RSPB's farm at South Newton, and before that from Tytherington Down) and as a consequense being nearly bare at present is whether we get extra pairs - and maybe even a Stone Curlew on the Stone Curlew plot!
Wait and see.
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