My OperaSkylarks at Reculver and whimbrels at Seasalter
Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:10:14 AM
Last Sunday went to Reculver in search of waders. Unfortunately the beach was nearly covered by the tide when I got there, and being Sunday morning the area was swarming with dogs and their walkers. I held out little hope of seeing anything but gulls, but went for a nice walk anyway. On top of the cliff is Reculver country park, which is a long thin park with a path running along the cliff and another along the border and a 10m or so band of long grass between the two. Amazingly, despite the constant stream of dogs on both paths, the long grass held 2 or 3 skylarks
These skylarks started to dispaly to each other
Then squaring off
before resrting to fighting, in mid air!
They repeated this a few times, posing in between
Then as the dogs got too much they left, and so did I. I then headed to Seasalter, which I heard was a good birding spot. Unfortunately I wasn't exactly sure where abouts in Seasalter to look, but I did come across this flock of whimbrels which took off and flew round
before landing again in a field
Words # Saturday, October 24, 2009 12:38:08 PM
RobinRobinL # Saturday, October 24, 2009 4:34:56 PM
Andy WilsonDudley # Saturday, October 24, 2009 4:38:31 PM
L2D2 # Saturday, October 24, 2009 5:17:09 PM
ERWINWulpen # Sunday, October 25, 2009 1:19:42 PM
Adele BrandSittingFox # Monday, October 26, 2009 8:54:46 PM
Loiscakkleberrylane # Monday, October 26, 2009 9:56:52 PM
NeilUkwildlife # Monday, October 26, 2009 10:13:17 PM
L2D2 - I dont think there truely migratory, more a resident species, but I think they move around a bit to find food winter