{"id":2599,"date":"2019-04-21T10:27:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T10:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2019-04-21T10:27:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T10:27:31","slug":"shipley-glen-to-golcar-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/shipley-glen-to-golcar-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipley Glen to Golcar Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Saturday 20 Apr 2019 was another Bracken Hall Countryside Centre walk guided by local birder Paul King. 1:30 in the afternoon might not be the best time to start a birding walk and Paul spent some time talking about what to look and listen for during early morning or evening walks. However we did well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We could here Robins and Crows but one of the first birds to be spotted was this Harris’s Hawk. It is most likely to be an escapee from a falconry, they breed in the Americas, so according to Paul it is only worth half a tick in your birding book. I quite like it and it doesn’t have any jesses on so it gets a full tick in my book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Hawk was being bothered by a Rook. The Hawk was a little late in flipping on to its back, which is probably just as well for the Rook. I know I wouldn’t want to be grabbed by those talons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was tempted to edit the relative positions of the birds to make it look more dramatic but that would be cheating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walking North along Bracken Hall Green, in amongst the Robins we could hear the distinctive call Willow Warblers. They will have only recently come back from Sub-Saharan Africa. They appeared to be spaced out along the trees so have already been setting up their breeding territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Further along Glovershaw Beck gave good views of a couple of Rookeries. It looked as though most of the nests were occupied with another adult nearby. This is a view of the nearer nests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After crossing the road this Common Buzzard flew over, circled a few times before drifting off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We had seen a few Swallows flying around. They will have recently returned from the Southern hemisphere to breed in and around our barns and outbuildings. This one posed nicely on a wire for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the moors things were very quiet. A couple of Curlew were heard. A few times a Snipe could be heard. In the fields there were a fair number of Lapwing on nests which means that not many have hatched yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A week ago I almost stood on a Lapwing nest containing three eggs<\/a>. It was in the middle of a track made by the golf club maintenance vehicles and very close to the busy path. I did not expect it to survive. I was surprised to see an adult lapwing still near where the nest had been and surprised again when I saw a chick. And even more surprised when I saw two more at what I think had been the nest. All the eggs had hatched! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the adult keeping a very close eye on one of the chicks. I have never been so close to Lapwing chicks before. In previous years I had been amazed at how you could get a glimpse of a chick and then with a call from an adult it would disappear from view. These new ones were sometimes hiding and sometimes walking towards the adult. Perhaps that was because we were so close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I no longer embed the images from flickr but I have uploaded these, plus a few others, to an album on flickr that you can see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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