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When Bill Oddy did Springwatch he talked about "getting to know your patch" and the advantages of regularly watching it.
I now have two patches, the back garden of the house , and a second alongside a route I hope to walk more regularly now with lengthening days..
In my LJ blog "Rhubarb patch" I reflected: "It recently occurred to me that ...rhubarb leaves are poisonous, rhubarb stems are sour and especially in damp conditions the foot of a rhubarb stem is likely to be slimy.....
in this I will try not to be posionous, sour or slimy!
I now have two patches, the back garden of the house , and a second alongside a route I hope to walk more regularly now with lengthening days..
In my LJ blog "Rhubarb patch" I reflected: "It recently occurred to me that ...rhubarb leaves are poisonous, rhubarb stems are sour and especially in damp conditions the foot of a rhubarb stem is likely to be slimy.....
in this I will try not to be posionous, sour or slimy!
Old Moor (Dearne Valley) RSPB
Posted 18-11-2011 at 10:03 PM by Jonquil_d
Nice place to go for lunch....and between coffee and lunch I managed to see three hides and a screen, though sadly I didn't see the Cettis Warbler(s?) or get as far as the hide where the golden plovers could be seen by the hundred...The garden feeder hide and the Tree Sparrow Farm screen both disappointed... usually both have been popping but almost nil at both today. With tree Sparrow Farm I think it could have something to do with the feeders having been moved to the side of the hedge adjacent to the car park and certainly here there was a choice range of small birds.
The Family Hide had its usual wonderful range of wildfowl...including the most Coots I have ever seen on one water , a number of Gadwall(they really are smart birds), Teal preening on the shore in front of the hide, and some sadly distant Shovelers. The most amazing thing was that I did not see the Heron parked straight in front of the hide until I had been there for about ten minutes.At the second hide the star turn was a pair of Green Sandpipers. No raptors on the reserve but there was a Kestrel overhead as we came away and a second Kestrel roadside on the way home.
The days list :
Wood pigeon, Pheasant, Greenfinch, Moorhen, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Magpie, Goldfinch, Blackbird, Black Headed Gull, Coot, Widgeon, Mallard, Tufted duck, Jackdaw, Canada geese, Mute swan, Teal, Heron, Lapwing, Gadwall, Cormorants, Shoveller, Green sandpiper
Crow, Shelduck, Reed bunting, Tree Sparrow, House Sparrow, Kestrel
I added Rook on the way home.
The Family Hide had its usual wonderful range of wildfowl...including the most Coots I have ever seen on one water , a number of Gadwall(they really are smart birds), Teal preening on the shore in front of the hide, and some sadly distant Shovelers. The most amazing thing was that I did not see the Heron parked straight in front of the hide until I had been there for about ten minutes.At the second hide the star turn was a pair of Green Sandpipers. No raptors on the reserve but there was a Kestrel overhead as we came away and a second Kestrel roadside on the way home.
The days list :
Wood pigeon, Pheasant, Greenfinch, Moorhen, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Magpie, Goldfinch, Blackbird, Black Headed Gull, Coot, Widgeon, Mallard, Tufted duck, Jackdaw, Canada geese, Mute swan, Teal, Heron, Lapwing, Gadwall, Cormorants, Shoveller, Green sandpiper
Crow, Shelduck, Reed bunting, Tree Sparrow, House Sparrow, Kestrel
I added Rook on the way home.
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