Walking Around After Birds

 

And so we get to the Dread Lockdown of Lockdownyness, wherein nobody can have any fun and ten meeeeellion bods wander all over everywhere you are allowed to go.

 

 

Love that coronavirus...

 

 

 

So, what news from The Patch?

 

 

First of all, getting straight to what you really want to know; it seems the Glonk is no longer hanging about the Nose. I saw what might have been it waaay off to the north with gulls about a trawler on Friday, but it's not been anywhere near close. 

The LTD is still present, though; now more likely at the north end of the Lead Stone than the south. Also present, on and off - and actually posing for once! - was this;

Mediterranean Gull

Woo. :)

Space issues save you from any more distant gull shots. [[Say "Thankyou google's extortion!"... ]]

Long-tailed Duck

 

Still not playing ball. 

Also feeling bashful, this one dashed past me while I was trying to photo a Firecrest and landed in the same tree! Said 'crest shut up and hid sharpish and no surprise, though the visitor had others on her mind...

Spot the Sprawk! 

"..No, the question is WHERE am I?"

"You're in the pine"

"Wha- no!... Why do you say that?"

"...I can see your tail"*

 

Notable absences, possibly weather-related, are divers and grebes - though one** was visible from the Real Living Coast on Friday - and no Purple Sands found there. This latter [and inded the former, for that matter] probably due to sustained onshore winds and the loss of shore weed [no weed = no inverts = no reason to be there, after all].  21 Turnstones were about the Harbour - 13 in one group were passed by another 8 flushed from the D-Day ramps by yachties - as well as this lovely little lady;

Kingfisher!

Not an easy species to see on Patch :D  Coastal records in winter make up the entirety [as the only inland fresh waterbodies are - like Cockington Ponds - not exactly suitable for 'proper' wildlife...] so this made up for my 'no divers, no Purple Sands, one very distant grebe' results of a full peninsula walk.

 

 

 

An ongoing mission [thinking casually about Patch Year Lists and so on.. ::whistles innocently:: ] is finding where the Blackstart/s is/are. There will be at least one, probably more, somewhere about the inner Patch area; the fun is finding said location amongst the vast arrays of rocky bits, built-up areas, gardens, rooftops, and so on where one might decide to stay...

Good times. 

Latest Spring Thing;

Leucojum sp.

[Presumably Spring, given the date]

 

 

 

Be Seeing You...

 

 

 

[[* Yes, that's a Scary Movie reference....]]

[[** I have awful blob photos, but space issues save you from the Horror.***]]

[[*** I will stop going on about this after this post.     Probably. ]]