Carr Dyke: 1400 - 1415
LBB Gull - 1
Mallard - 1m
Moorhen - 1pr + 2 juvs
Butterwick Hale: 1430 - 1530
Kestrel - 1
Swallows/House Martins - c125
Hadn't been since April so was amazed to find the big tree next to the incline had gone so to speak, was told it had become unsafe so was axed and then burnt, it now looks like a sculpture. The damsons and pears are in abundance, I left them alone the path down was too tricky
Black Bank: 1540 - 1710 & 1900 - 2030
Robin - 1
Moorhen - 2
Sprawk - 2m
Mallard - 1 + 6 juvs
House Spugs - 42 incl juvs, Tree Spugs - 4 [never seen them here b4], Goldfinch - 36 incl juvs, Chaffinch - 10, Willow Warbler - 1juv, Blackcap - 1m, Whitethroat - 3 + 2 juvs, Lesser Whitethroat - 3 juvs, House Martin/Swallow - c70, Mistle Thrush - 3 juvs, Common & Black-head Gulls - c100 & c500 [ the former were hawking insects close to the eastern ponds and the latter were following the tractor ploughing], Kestrel - 1, Pied Wag - 1, plus corvids, pigeons, doves and pheasants.
Holme [to the south of the M180 bridge]: 1730 - 1830
Common Buzzard - 1
I've been parking on this piece of rough ground for years and never had any bother till now. As I drove along the bridleway from Messingham I noticed the farmer had placed large concrete blocks to the entrances of some of the fields, and as I drove over the brow of the hill someone had dumped loads of soil on the eastern side of the track where I normally park. At the bottom of the incline there were more concrete blocks blocking the fields. As I drove towards the motorway it never crossed my mind that the rough bit of track where I park would be out-of-bounds, at the entrance were four of the big blocks but obviously enough room for farm vechiles to get through. So I drove through and parked in my usual spot which is only ten yards fro the road. I'd been there quite a while and then realised a vehicle was along side me, I looked up and the farmer gave me the thumb sign to shift, I held up my bins hoping he would relent, but alas he gave me the thumb sign again and didn't look very happy, I couldn't believe it
I wasn't doing any harm, but I moved to the northern side of the bridge but it wasn't satisfactory so went to Black Bank again.
In the ten years I did surveys I hardly got any assistance from the farmers and now I don't do them I'm getting harrassed by them. Aye well, plenty more places to go.
Enjoyed my day out other than that.
Highlight was getting video of a water vole.
Regards
John
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