The Moors pools at Holmethorpe is developing into ideal wader territory |
This in itself is quite strange really because part of the patch, The Moors, is really turning into great habitat for waders at the moment. We are getting some – plenty of Green Sandpiper and the odd Common Sandpiper – as well as a number of Little Egret, but bugger-all to get the pulses racing.
And yet at the other end of Surrey, Tice's Meadow has had plenty of good birds, a Wood Sandpiper that stayed for a week, plenty of Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Ruff, plus five Yellow Wagtails briefly today.
What I'd do to see a Greenshank or a Wood Sandpiper on the local patch before the end of the week! Better still a Curlew Sandpiper or a Temminck's Stint. Wow, that would be something.
It may happen, you never know.
Instead of watching the same old waders bobbing up down around the edge of the Moors pools, Annie and I went out late yesterday afternoon for a bit of sun, not really knowing where we were heading.
The Devil's Punch Bowl at Hindhead |
The place is magical. Wonderfully quiet and peaceful, fantastic views and there were plenty of butterflies about.
Now, no matter how hard I try, I can't get Annie even faintly interested in birds, but butterflies... this an area she has taken to straight away.
We saw quite a few, and being even more of a novice on the id of butterflies than I am with birds, we couldn't put a name to many of them.
Clouded Yellow |
Common Blue |
Small Skipper |
There were plenty of Common Blues around, as well as Small Skipper (I found out later via butterfly guru and Racing Post pal Francis Kelly what the above photo was). There were some bigger blue butterflies flying about but I didn't get a photo so have no idea what they were.
All-in-all though, an excellent afternoon. I only hope I don't get too involved in all this butterfly lark, as one obsession is plenty for me at the moment.
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