A Short-eared Owl reported by Barrie Norman today, on the Downs near Bo Peep (Alciston) at 2.30pm
Meanwhile, here are a couple of photos of yesterday’s fine dawn in Firle.
Posted in Local sightings, photo, tagged bo peep, dawn, firle, short-eared owl on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Short-eared Owl reported by Barrie Norman today, on the Downs near Bo Peep (Alciston) at 2.30pm
Meanwhile, here are a couple of photos of yesterday’s fine dawn in Firle.
Posted in Local sightings, tagged brambling, fieldfare, firle, grey wagtail, redwing on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With heavy rain until about 10 yesterday, I was late walking the dog, but it seemed to coincide with all the birds starting to get busy after their own delayed start.
Walking up Bostal Road, a gaggle of about 30 noisy Canada Geese – that included one noisy Greylag – flew off the Downs and over [...]
Posted in Local sightings, photo, tagged canada goose, firle, little owl, pied wagtail on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday afternoon, a couple of Little Owls showed at Place Farm in the dying light.
Today, flocks of five and 10 alba wagtails in the paddocks around Place Farm, with more overhead.
Groups of around 50 and 18 Canada Geese flew west towards the Ouse.
Posted in Local sightings, tagged canada goose, firle, glynde levels, linnet, skylark, swallow on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Back up to the Plantation again this morning, and one or more Marsh Tits again in evidence, this time with a mixed flock of LT, Blue and Great Tits and perhaps 10 Chiffchaffs, in scrub just to the east of the woodland.
In the plantation itself, Treecreeper singing and GS Woodpecker calling, while on the big [...]
Posted in Local sightings, photo, tagged beetle, common buzzard, firle, firle village, grasshopper, lime hawk-moth, safari britain, tilton, wall on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some images from Sunday’s Safari Britain walk – first the caterpillar of a Lime Hawk-moth, in the same place to one seen a few weeks ago (previously thought to have been Privet Hawk-moth).
Bird-wise, the walk was much quieter than the previous week; the highlight was probably a Common Buzzard that some of the group [...]
Posted in Local sightings, photo, tagged birdwatching, firle, guided walk, hobby, spotted flycatcher on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Five of us met at Place Farm on a lovely midsummer Saturday morning, for a walk up to Firle Plantation and back. Often on these occasions the really special birds decline to appear on cue – but this time we were in luck.
As we gathered, a subtle but distinctive squeaking song drifted over from the [...]
Posted in Local sightings, tagged firle, spotted flycatcher on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A Spotted Flycatcher seen by Paul S yesterday, on a roof and surrounding garden in the middle of The Street.
After the one heard singing in the churchyard last week, it bodes well for the prospects of a pair or two settling in the village to breed this year.
Posted in Local sightings, tagged firle, spotted flycatcher on May 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On Thursday morning, the first familiar squeaks from a Spotted Flycatcher, singing somewhere around in the mature trees near the back of the churchyard in Firle, but refusing to show itself.
Posted in Local sightings, photo, tagged blackbird, blackcap, common whitethroat, firle, glynde, glynde reach, grey heron, song thrush, stock dove, swallow on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A beautiful evening, although the wind was starting to get up ahead of the showers that arrived overnight.
A bike-ride around Firle just before dusk failed to glean any Nightingales or Turtle Doves, but there was a group of around 20 Swallows down by the decoy pond (along with a large heron chick, on the [...]
Posted in Firle in pictures, photo, tagged downs, firle, pictures, snow, south downs on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »