Sunday, 10 May 2020

Early morning visit to Fisher Row

Oh how I wish I had gone too Fisher Row last night, although my tooth was playing up and I wasn't in a fit state to cycle there. The male Whitethroat was still singing just over the garden fence at first light. Instead I was up with the Lark and by 6am on Sunday 10th May, on my early morning exercise ride, I heard and then saw 2 scolding Lesser Whitethroats, 1 flew over the path by the sloping field (just before the railway line and fresh in) and 1 stayed in the big bush. Whitethroat and Willow Warbler and Grasshopper Warblers, 1 of each hard too. At the end of the Fisher Row path, there was no sight nor sound of the Great Reed of yesterday evening. A bubbling female Cuckoo was heard by the Cettis' Bush just over the river and both Cetti's Warbler and another Cuckoo heard on the marsh too plus 1 also heard before the railway line and 1 heard opposite St. Michael's Church so potentially 4 Cuckoos recorded, great news! Walking round opposite the entrance slope the Grasshopper Warbler was still reeling when I left. Being so early several 3 Muntjac Deer seen, one by the horse paddocks just before St. Michael's Church, one down Fisher Row and one also in St. Michael's Church graveyard walking between the gravestones. Meanwhile in the garden only a day of seconds with 2nd garden lockdown record of Pied Wagtail which flew south at 8.35am & then closely followed by a 2nd garden lockdown record of Yellow Wagtail that flew east over the garden at 8.41am and the Bee Fly around again but no sign of the Green hairstreak so far!

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