I set out fairly early this morning to cover two areas of
farmland Canons Farm and Epsom and Walton Downs. The later had farmer Giles’s
out ploughing fields which was attracting the local corvids a few gulls and a
Red Kite which had been drawn in by the swirling masses. This activity had also
solved the puzzle of why there was not a single gull on the racecourse!
I was also experimenting with the ebird android app which
allows you to record bird sightings on the move and I must say is very user
friendly and even plots your route which is shown on the sightings page at the
end of the outing! They just need to sort out the worlds recording boundaries
Rep of Georgia in Asia and Whiskered Tern on my Surrey list… Errm I don’t think
so!
I bumped into a couple of Red Legged Partridge and decided
to follow them as they scarpered up the hill. I lost sight of them to flush a
Woodcock that was sitting on the edge of the tree line separating fields. I
wonder if this is the same bird that I had flushed from the edge of the
now ploughed field!
Canons Farm was pretty non-eventful with a couple of good
sized flocks of Linnet. Bog field is still flooded and I guess it’s only a
matter of time before a shorebird pitches up there but I guess that requires a
stupid o clock start before the bird moves on at the sight of the first dog!
A good day with a general thumbs up for ebird!
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