Tag: wing tagged marsh harriers
May 1st by Ian under Bird Watching
Observations over two days ending Sunday 1/5/11 Pinkfoot geese still around, counted 100 odd flighting to the water, there is a good east wind blowing, you would have thought they would be off. No Green woodpecker this weekend but as ever heard the GS variety, not drumming, just “cheeping”. Sedge warblers now joining chiffchaffs and willows, think I heard a blackcap but not familiar enough with their song, no sign yet of the usual resident whitethroat. On the Osprey front the male has no leg rings so is a new partner to (the same female?) who knows? Thought he looked …
Apr 24th by Ian under Bird Watching
Still geese around, I reckon that there are in excess of 500 pinkfeet in the pics, note the heron nests in pic 2. Easter Sunday and I was out by 7.30 am, the osprey was sitting with head erect with no sign of the male. An assumption they had not swapped over. It was my intention to spend most of my time trying to determine where the Marsh harriers were nesting this year so I left the Osprey to wait for himself with a fish and I wandered over the wet grass to my estuary spot. The best way to …