Army Ornithological SocietySPTA West
It is already mid January and I am up to 115 birds in UK and 61 in Wiltshire. I eneded up on the Norfolk Coast for the 1st weekend in January with friends from the Society. It was a good weekend with a lot of birds seen. I have been on the Plain and did my first survey last week where I found the normal corvids and stuff. I also went on an egg hunt for Brown Hairstreak and though the group found 22 eggs (white dots on Blackthorn) I found several eggs of the Blue-boarded Carpet (white dots on Blackthorn though no dimple). I have been ringing and twitching in Wiltshire. It has been a bit windy to ring at home but have been out and about at other locations. Today I extracted and put a ring on my first Snipe and twitched 3 Whooper Swans near the Thames. The other day I twitched the Smew though it took me 2 attempts to find it. On the Plain I saw a Ring-tail Harrier and a Merlin though not on my grid square. There were also some large adult Fairy Shrimps as well in the last puddle before walking to the car after finishing my grid sqaure (onyy 12 sqaures to go). There always are Roe Deer about but they are very skittish.
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