I was invited by The Puddletown Society to speak at their society meeting last night. The Birds of Bardolf Farm was the subject of the presentation and took place at the local church hall which was full to capacity! This was a thoroughly enjoyable evening with plenty of positive feedback filtering through today.
The weather remains cold and I am keeping an eye on the water meadows in anticipation of the arrival of some grey geese! Today there were some additional geese including the return of the Hawaiian Goose which flew in with a couple of Canada Geese mid morning.
Wildfowl numbers have increased considerably over the last few days. They were more spread out over the meadows today so I walked down to Cattlecrush to view the meadows from the north side.
A juvenile Peregrine appeared low over the meadows which caused slight chaos but concentrated the wildfowl in one area. The bird landed in the tree just to my left had a good look at me tucked into the hedgerow by the gate and then moved on.
Site Counts:- Green Sandpiper 2, Snipe 7, Wigeon 514, Teal 199, Lapwing 99, Geese: Egyptian 8, Canada 252, Greylag 6.
I remained on site until after dark (gate access only) logging Barn and Tawny Owl!
With another cold night ahead there maybe some more new arrivals tomorrow!
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