Dave was able to join me for a walk around Morton Bagot this morning. It was again largely sunny with a light easterly breeze. Someone will have thrown open the curtains this morning and found themselves looking at a Wryneck. Not us though.
In apparently ideal conditions we found nothing wonderful, but also noticed that the best things came in threes.
The contractors don't work on a Sunday, so we explored the old pool field to see what they had been up to. About four small scrapes are awaiting the rain which must surely fall eventually. In the meantime we found that the hedgerow and piles of soil bore three Whinchats and three Stonechats.
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| Whinchat |
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| Stonechat |
The area they preferred also featured several Whitethroats, a Lesser Whitethroat, and a Chiffchaff. For a moment there we thought we were doing well.
Moving on to the flash field we counted three Snipe, and three Green Sandpipers, along with 85 Lapwings, and 18 Teal.
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| Snipe and Lapwing |
By this time it was past 10.00 am and getting warm, getting flat, getting duller. It was a little better than my last visit, but with just 39 species the prospects for next weekend look bleak.
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