The morning dawned cold and frosty and I headed down to another snippet of land at the edge of my Circle. This time the venue was on the south-eastern edge of Aston Cantlow. I had visited the same square last summer, and I remembered it as being pretty dull.
So I was pleasantly surprised this time that one or two less regular birds were seen. The first were six Lapwings and nine Golden Plovers seen flying some distance away to the south of the village. Although I'd heard a Golden Plover somewhere near Umberslade back in January, these were the first I had actually seen this year.
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| Pretty bleak and uninspiring |
In the photo above, you can just see the edge of a wooded bank which was keepered for Pheasants and therefore private. However, from the footpath I was on, the second decent sighting of the day was visible when a Peregrine appeared from above those trees.
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| Peregrine |
Oddly enough I had seen a Peregrine in the Aston Cantlow area some years before. I couldn't see any particular reason that the species would be here, but maybe there are some pylons in the vicinity. Peregrines love surveying the landscape from those man-made structures.
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