A suprise in the form of 2x Turtle Doves flushed from a newly combined field north of Easterfields, East Malling. One alighted into a tree over the road where I managed a pic (see below) before it took flight again - top quality as usual...come on it's the reason you visit my site! Amazingly these are the first Turtle Doves I've seen on the East Malling side of my patch, although I've heard them 'purring' in Oaken Woods before. An amazing 32x Collared Doves, 2x Stock Doves and 18x Wood Pigeons also took flight - the Collared Doves weighing down a near-by wire!
15x Pied wagtails were seen in the paddocks, but no Wheatears or Whinchats this time.
Good numbers of Linnets and Yellowhammers and a single Chiffchaff and Whitethroat plumped up the hedgerows.
The day finished with a fantastic sky - a crescent prism and then a brooding sunset.
2 comments:
Nice record of the Turtle doves Adam. Passage birds no doubt, just goes to show what might drop in :-)
superbe fotografii,bravo
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