Friday, October 12, 2007

Snipe



10:00>12:30 Fog bound 12 degrees


A Calm day with fog lifting and falling all the time.


21 Snipe flushed of the pools as i walked to the hide{ should have a screen up}


4 Teal

1 Grey Heron

8 Mallard


12 Meadow Pipits

2 Stonechat in Paddock


36 BH Gulls

6 Common Gulls

3 Comments:

At 1:28 PM, Blogger Nick Carter said...

We did talk about a screen for the approach to the hide but decided against it, this is the first example of birds being flushed by someone going to the hide I've heard of, perhaps we need to think again?

 
At 5:50 AM, Blogger S Gray said...

may be as it was so foggy the snipe were all out on the bank so as soon as i got near they were off, i mentioned it to john and he said that it was an idear some sort of netting on posts that could be removed for access

 
At 11:12 AM, Blogger Nick Carter said...

As long as it can stand the wind we get up there!

 

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