Saturday 20 September 2008

Brockholes Wetlands LWT - 20th September 2008






with recent days producing a great number of migrating Honey Buzzards throughout the country, I thought I would make an effort at Brockholes as I would assume migrating Birds of Prey would use a major river valley such as the Ribble for direction. Before I had time to react, I received a text from Bill Aspin saying that John Wright had seen a Juv fly >SW...damn! maybe there would be more.
I went down and because of the last few days producing a juv Hobby on the back pits of the site near Boilton Woods, I headed in that direction. There were several assembled observers and we soon picked up the Hobby. This was by far the best experience I have had with a Hobby and I even managed to hear an Alarm Call as it was flushed by a fisherman. This is a nice late record and a promising bird...
Also on Site was 2 Snipe and overhead there were 7 Curlew and 3 Golden Plover >west, the latter being increasingly hard to see down at the quarry.
No Honey Buzzard but theres still time...

2 comments:

Gavin Haig said...

No Honeys for me in Devon either!

Just wanted to pop in and say 'well done' to all of you for producing this young birders blog. Excellent!

PS. Zac - please say hello to Colin Bushell for me next time you bump into him up the NW there. :-)

Zac Hinchcliffe said...

will do;)