Wednesday, 12 December 2012

golden plover and cranes

Since the pallas warbler surprise the birding has been quite interesting; a hawfinch and a lesser spotted woodpecker were present at Valence yesterday and a flock of 100 cranes flew high over La Poterie. A trip over the Lairiere plains this morning revealed a single lapwing, no less than five herons following a plough and a flock of over 50 golden plover feeding in the same field. Flocks of skylarks and chaffinches contained many hundreds and a single flock of linnets consisted of around 400 birds.


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  1. One lapwing! I've got hundreds here! Can't go out of the front door without tripping over lapwings!Not much else except flocks of curlew feeding on the river meadows.Nice picture of a little grebe on my Facebook page though.Oh sorry, you don't do Facebook, I'll send it you though. Irv

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