Hey up folks, first things first. I don't know if you've noticed but i've had a Brazilian this week! No it's not what you think, i haven't succumbed to the modern trend among young males to have a bit of a trim round the old tickle tackle. As our Ellie is fond of sayin' "No way Jose"! No infact i was referring' to the fact that i've just had me first visitor from South America, who'd have thought it eh? Obviously our Brazilian friend must have been mislead by the title of me blog and thought he'd jammed onto something a bit livelier!!!!!!!!!!
Back to birdin' now.Family duties this mornin' meant i was restricted to a brief visit to the feedin' station set up by professional squirrel hunter and former nightclub bouncer "Clacky Clowes" behind the Ramblers Retreat Restaurant at Dimmings Dale on the edge of the Cheesedale recordin' area. My target was the Marsh Tits that visit Clackys feeders. Bingo! Within ten minutes of gettin' there i had a Marsh Tit safely UTB as it raided the generous portions of seed provided. If you haven't visited Dimmings ' before please don't bother, because it's very popular and unless you are there at the crack of dawn you'll be swamped by hordes of locals out for a stroll before the omnibus edition of 'Enders. Despite the hordes it can be brilliant for Wood Wobbler and Pied Fly' in spring so it's up to you.
Finally got to Utch at around three after callin' in at the JCB Lakes briefly to unleash the trusty Mugimaki on a few more rubber ducks and Blockheads.
After yesterdays Pinkies it was to say the least, a bit quiet. A stroll along the hedges hopin' to turn up a roostin' LEO proved fruitless as did a quick check for any roostin' Tawny Owls near to where we found a newly fledged owlet last spring. No sign of the female Scaup from yesterday but thee now controversial aytha hybrid was still swimmin' around and seemed to have designs on one rather cute female Pochard. Plenty of Goosander around today though and it was these that provided the highlight of the afternoon pour moi and Tenfords Top Ticker, good old RP Spooner who'd turned up after spendin' the day bolsterin' his staffs year list.
We settled into try and get the site record for roostin' Goosander at about half four and an hour later RP "raised his bat to the crowd" as we hit the magic fifty! No bad eh, and just the two of us to witness it. Doesn't get much better than that. Well perhaps findin' the Eastern Crowned Wobbler was slightly better i suppose.
With the record safely UTB we went our separate ways for home and guess what? Floatin' over the rough meadow right between me and the motor was a Barn Owl! A bostin' way to finish another good a'noons local patchin'.
Goosander 50, site record
Wigeon 146
Tufty 101
Pochard 28
Teal 7
Cormorant 29
Snipe 8
Green Sand' 1
Curlew 1
Oyst' 1
Barn Owl 1
That's all folks.
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