Another morning spent birding from the garden, pre work, was testament to the power of obsession. I'd already written that I wasn't too bothered about birding! What an idiotic statement - it took less than a couple of hours, yesterday, to know that I'd be getting back into BWKm0 mode for the second time this year. What follows is about as exciting as a telephone directory but, fortunately, will not require duplication in future posts. MY LIST (in the order they were recorded!)
1 - House Sparrow
2 - Carrion Crow
3 - Herring Gull
4 - Great Tit
5 - Blue Tit
6 - Robin
7 - Collared Dove
8 - Goldfinch
9 - Sky Lark - up to six birds over the stubble beyond the garden hedge
10 - Magpie
11 - Jackdaw
12 - Rose-ringed Parakeet
13 - Blackbird - a continental male went East this morning
14 - Starling - a decent movement westwards noted yesterday morning 250+
15 - Sparrowhawk
16 - Black-headed Gull
17 - Wood Pigeon
18 - Blackcap - male
19 - Dunnock
20 - Linnet - over calling
21 - Mistle Thrush
22 - Jay
23 - Rook - one north
24 - Wren
25 - Green Woodpecker - calling over at the farm compound
26 - Common Buzzard
27 - Chaffinch - seven north
28 - Fieldfare - four west
Four more species added today!
29 - Lesser Black-backed Gull - three adults north
30 - Cormorant - one north
31 - Kestrel
32 - Pied (alba) Wagtail - over
So there you have it, thus far! November isn't a particularly favourable month around Newlands Farm yet, because I've nothing better to do, feel sure something unusual will turn up. I'll finish with a photo and hope that I retain the enthusiasm as this second lockdown period progresses?
It's hardly a Lockdown this time round. As far as I can see, most people, except the poor shops that have had to close, are going about life as they normally do in the countryside. Birdwatchers, WEBS counters, fishermen, wildfowlers are all out and about as usual and rightly so. What does BWKmO stand for?
ReplyDeleteHi Derek,
DeleteThe BWKm0 is the brainchild of an Italian birder. It stands for Bird Watching at zero Kilometres and was instrumental in a huge upsurge in garden birding right across Europe during the first wave of the pandemic. Steve Gale did a brilliant job of co-ordinating one such effort back at the start of the first lockdown and very rewarding it was to be part of. This time round it's just a bit of solo fun.