Patchy Gubbins

I considered calling this 'Dots and Destruction' due to the pics I took about the Patch on Sunday, but never mind.


The star of the show was a lovely Blackcap in full song, hiding amidst the remains of the top of the South Side at the Nose. I failed to find any definite migrants - a calling Chiff might have been one, as of course the Blackcap - or indeed a lot else of note. At sea, there were Gannets about, and the scoter were back in numbers by the Buoy Farm; a half dozen groups in proximity, each of 20-70 birds. In the wind, with the ducks riding the big swell, and with the habit they had of partial group diving and so on, an accurate count wasn't realistic, so I settled on a '~250' . It looked like there was still a group of Velvets with them - maybe 5 - but they didn't do anything definitive, only be Velvety*


At the Nose, here are a couple more instances of 'conservation by chainsaw';

The re-opened Mud Path

There's a hole in the hedge

Finally, there's no escape from the blobs of doooooom...

Particularly blobby

Hmm, I feel the need for something more decorative. I've been putting too many like those up recently. ::Shuffles through the Dread Archive..::

Ok, here's something completely different;

Yeah, that one again

Be Seeing You..




[[*Velvets are bigger, and show a longer more elongated body when on the water. Head shape is different, with a 'roughly concave' bill profile. They also tend to look darker, and of course can show white secondaries even on a folded wing]]