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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!
Walked the patch
Posted 28-11-2011 at 08:37 PM by Jonquil_d
Completed the whole circuit today..with a strorng unpleasant wind coming off the moor. Science teachers have told me that a zero result is still a result.....but a zero result birding is not much fun even if it is still a result.....and today it was pretty much zero...or it seemed like it but when I did my list it wasn't quite.
There were in fact the usual birds at the pond:twenty four Mallard including eight females, maintaining the 2:1 gender ratio, six geese the five residents and the visiting Canada goose, and just one Moorhen visible and almost twenty black headed gulls.
In the village at the start and the end there were groups of Starlings, I think there must be an overnight roost not far away and during the day the spread out over the moors and through the village. Starling twittering is an amazing sound when they are spread through an area of trees.
On the walk I spotted a feral pigeon and a collared dove, and Corvids (Crow, jackdaws and magpies) and heard a blackbird alarm call and that was it.
Not quite zero but pond apart nothing that doesn't visit the garden most days.
Tomorrow and the rest of the week is supposed to be wet and windier...so it was good to get out today.The walk was challenging
and worth doing as a walk...even if the birds for the most part had more sense than I did and had taken cover.
There were in fact the usual birds at the pond:twenty four Mallard including eight females, maintaining the 2:1 gender ratio, six geese the five residents and the visiting Canada goose, and just one Moorhen visible and almost twenty black headed gulls.
In the village at the start and the end there were groups of Starlings, I think there must be an overnight roost not far away and during the day the spread out over the moors and through the village. Starling twittering is an amazing sound when they are spread through an area of trees.
On the walk I spotted a feral pigeon and a collared dove, and Corvids (Crow, jackdaws and magpies) and heard a blackbird alarm call and that was it.
Not quite zero but pond apart nothing that doesn't visit the garden most days.
Tomorrow and the rest of the week is supposed to be wet and windier...so it was good to get out today.The walk was challenging
and worth doing as a walk...even if the birds for the most part had more sense than I did and had taken cover.
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