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| Author: | Andy Sims [ Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Swanpool/Boultham mere 08/09. |
Highlight of a morning on my local patch was an adult Osprey, this was first seen over the mere at 09:15 when it caught a small fish, possibly roach, and flew onto a ploughed field to the west to eat its catch. At 10:20 it was back over the mere where it spent 10 minutes fishing, unsuccessfully, before flying off west. (This is the 3rd record of Osprey at the mere in the last 12 days. The first, a juv, on 28th Aug and the 2nd last Saturday, do not know its age). Also recorded this morning:- 2 Teal 1 Sparrowhawk 2 Common Buzzards 2 Kestrels 2 Water Rails heard 3 adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls S 1 Swift S 1 Kingfisher 1 Green Woodpecker c140 hirundines, mainly House Martins, feeding high over the mere. |
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| Author: | Keith Warner [ Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Swanpool/Boultham mere 08/09. |
1 juv osprey sunday afternoon as well andy. came in from scampton way circled the mere perched in a tree right hand side of mere for about 10 mins then flew off towards your neck off the woods |
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| Author: | Andy Sims [ Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Swanpool/Boultham mere 08/09. |
Adult Osprey still present at Boultham mere this morning, 9th. Seen 3 times between 08:45 and 11:00, making several plunge dives but not catching anything. Also seen:- 5 Cormorants 78 Coot 1 Kingfisher 1 Great-spotted Woodpecker 1 Lesser Whitethroat 1 Chiifchaff 1 Spotted Flycatcher (my 4th on the patch in last 13 days) c15 Jays foraging for acorns 3 Yellowhammers 1 Reed Bunting |
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