Late Visits
It was a bit of a rush to finish all my Late Visits for the Breeding Atlas. I’ve been wading through chest-deep nettles one morning and beans the next, got soaked with dew, scratched, stung and sunburnt, menaced by dogs, befriended by cats and shadowed by suspicious crows.
There were surprises right to the end: a Little Owl flying across the front lawn of Buckswood School for instance, (never seen one in that area before) and 5 Yellowhammers suddenly singing around Brook Lodge Farm, Brede instead of the usual 1, as well as a female gathering nesting material. Read the rest of this entry »
