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Chandlers Ford “Falcons” |
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Date: Sep 15th 2007 — 69 species recorded |
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Check Lists for the Keyhaven Fieldtrip |
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BIRD LIST Blackbird Reed Bunting Buzzard Chiffchaff Coot Cormorant Carrion Crow Curlew Collared Dove Tufted Duck Dunlin Dunnock Little Egret Eider Gadwell Black Tailed Godwit Goldfinch Canada Goose Little Grebe Greenfinch Greenshank Mediterranean Gull Black Headed Gull Herring Gull Grey Heron Hobby Jackdaw Kestrel Kingfisher Knot Lapwing Greater Black Backed Gull Lesser Black Backed Gull Linnet Magpie Mallard House Martin Moorhen Oystercatcher Peregrine Wood Pigeon Feral pigeon Pintail Meadow Pipit Ringed Plover Grey Plover Redshank Spotted Redshank Robin Rook Shelduck Shovelor Snipe House Sparrow Sparrowhawk Starling Swallow Mute Swan Teal Common Tern Little Tern Blue Tit Great Tit Turnstone Pied Wagtail Sedge Warbler Wigeon Greater Spotted Woodpecker Wren
69 species |
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We had a good turnout for this fieldtrip. A good clear, warm day with a gentle onshore wind.
It was a relatively slow start. In fact the huge spiders web we saw looked like it was going to be the highlight of the whole fieldtrip. We had also missed the osprey that had been reported in the area. But then suddenly everything began to show.
There seemed to be loads of passage greenshanks. Then loads of Black tailed Godwits on the mudflats. Little egrets floating in and a then three darting kingfishers making bright metallic streaks low across the pans.
Things were looking up… then the highlight of day—two hobbies feeding over the reeds. We all watched their agility with awe; we saw how they pounced on dragonflies, ate them in flight and prepared for another pass-through the feeding area. Absolutely fantastic.
Then we had the same argument we had last year in the same location—was it a whimbrel or was it a curlew? Then a peregrine on a post out on the mudflats followed by Eider duck floating out on the Solent.
Overall a great day, all with good company. What more could you ask for?
Pete 17/Sep/2007
Images by Tom and David.
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