Army Ornithological SocietySPTA West
A New Year Resolution from Wiltshire
Start of the New Year is a resolution to provide you with updates on SPTA West. This is the area with no public access which you will have spent many a day on enjoying the delights of a calceous grassland landscape. I lead walks across the area for the conservation group most months as well as organising various bird surveys. The road from Gore Cross through Imber to Warminster is open to the public though there is a lot of water on the road in Imber. The bush near Gore Cross which normally has Corn Bunting and Yellowhammer in was occupied by a Kestrel this morning so no small birds around. The drive across the Plain produced lots of corvids and not a lot else. However Balttlesbury Bowl near Warminster provided the highlights with a male Bullfinch, Lesser Redpoll and a flock of about 60 Goldfinch. Further around the road stopping at our new ringing site the Great Grey Shrike was found as well as three Green Woodpeckers in the same tree. The Shrike had been reported 2 days earlier in the area and there were possibly 2 in early December.
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