Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Five Tits and a Garden Pied Flycatcher

All but one of Charente's six species of tit were together in the Braconne forest this week, viz
blue, great, long-tailed, marsh and crested. Only the coal tit was missing but I have found these to be elusive recently. The flock was accompanied by firecrests, nuthatches, treecreepers and, very fleetingly, a lesser spotted woodpecker.
It's that time of year when pied flycatchers turn up in my garden and sure enough one was calling as it flitted among the trees yesterday.
Robins are revealing themselves much more of late. They seem to be more reclusive during the breeding season.
And as for the weather, it still won't settle down!

2 comments:

  1. Hi, thanks for providing this excellent resource which seems to be about the only information available!

    We are staying in Chavagnac and despite 40-50 species so far are struggling a bit with the birding. Particularly disappointing is the raptor situation with no harriers, kites or eagles seen, just lots of buzzard and kestrel.

    I tried the area around the wind turbines near La Tache early this morning which seemed promising but was a dead loss with barely a bird seen.

    We are particularly keen to find stone curlew but have had no luck so far.

    if you could provide any further info on good places or perhaps you would like to join up for a bit of birding then do get in touch!

    James Watson
    jpawatson83@gmail.com

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    1. Hi James
      Having only just picked up your comment I'm rather late in replying but I've just sent you an email to see if you are still in the area.

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