Sunday 29 November 2015

Lots More Cranes and a Stock Dove

Not long after publishing my last post which referred to a skein of late cranes I watched two other large ones consisting of 1500/2000 birds pass over close to the house. I suspect that there are still more to come.
I forgot to mention in that same post that a single stock dove put in an appearance near Luxé. I have seen this species on only a few occasions in Charente and this one was probably winter visitor or on passage from the north.
The cold weather of winter has not yet set in despite a few frosty mornings but a small flock of lapwings were moving south yesterday ; really cold weather will bring them down in their thousands.

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