Following a blank yesterday, I decided to try again following Dick's sightings of LSW and 4 Hawfinch at Sotterley this morning. Meeting Neville L at the turnstyle at 1pm he said he'd had no luck and despite a 2 hour thorough search of the area, all I saw were
2 Nuthatch near the church, a
Goldcrest, a flock of
20 Fieldfare with
110 Starling in the field east of the church, a
Marsh Tit in the tree walking back plus
1 Treecreeper seen and
another heard in the park near the turnstyle.
I have toted up my totals and I have been a total of 34 times to Sotterley (the first 3X I went round the chapel thinking that was the church and the area to check!) with not even a sniff of a LSW and just 1 albeit very close (before I had my current camera set-up) sighting of a Hawfinch.
A very, very poor return indeed.
Win some lose some.
ReplyDeleteSix hawfinches in 13 visits to Sotterley, I think. First visit successful with a close lesser 'pecker' too.
Bought lunch at Asda Sat 12th. Maintained my 100% failure rate in eight plus attempts for the grain silo peregrine.
I was asked at Mayday Farm(!) where Sotterley was.
ReplyDeleteThe questionner and friend left, possibly for Sotterley.
Coue's arctic redpoll, a gap in my Suffolk list ticked. I arrived at 9am. Went back to the car for an early lunch. Seen 1pm. Photo on BINS. Better send my notes in!
They probably didn't see it though!
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