A quick visit the the lake was worth while, as I recorded a MANDARIN DUCK another new one for the month, bring up the 60 mark. Another, or one of this mornings Cuckoo's was calling actively from the scrub, where a family party of at least 10 LONG TAILED TITS were flitting noisily. I walked on over to the tree nursery only to find a tractor cutting down all the low brambles and grass in one of the fields, thus ending all nesting attempts there, and destroying all the bug life in it. All this for no other reason than ''keeping it all looking tidy'' What a bunch of idiots These people are!
At Migrant alley there seem to be a passage of LESSER BLACK BACKED GULLS, with 14 going west, in groups of two's and three's, and a pair of TURTLE DOVES were on the powere lines crossing the fields.
Goldfinch at the feeders in my garden
One of the Lesser Black Backed Gulls going over migrant alley
More destruction form the local land owners/ leasers. The surrounding hedges will be the next to be ''nicely tidied''
2 comments:
How frustrating Warren! Have you tried speaking to Coblands?
Hi Steve,
I have been in contact with Coblands, and the landowners whom coblands lease the fields from. They are as bad as each other!! they are very sypathetic, and appear to take in what you are telling them. Then the landowner blames the tennants and the tennants say it's the landowner! a threat to use the 1981 wildife and countryside act against them is always a bluff, it's nigh impossible to make a case, and if you did, and then get a prosecution, the punishment is negligeable. All very sad.
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