Monday 25 January 2010

NEW SCOPE


and here it is!
picked it up from sherwoods optics near morton baggot, warks, the shop has an array of bird feeders and the range of birds on them was huge, tested out my scope on the feeders after i set it up, first bird i scoped with it was a marsh tit, then i moved onto one of the 2 great spotted woodpeckers. then onto the highight of the session, a WILLOW TIT, it was also heard calling backing up the identity.
species noted were:
WILLOW TIT 1
MARSH TIT 2
G S woodpecker 2
phesant 1 (f)
coal tit 3
chaffinch 30c
nuthatch 1
jay 1
not a bad haul for 10 mins of watching the feeders........
although just up the road was 2 little egrets and a green sandpiper, which we didnt know about untill later that evening, bummer
MB

4 comments:

Robs Birding said...

Hi MB, like your new scope and i can see by your other posts how much more enjoyment you are getting from it , also well done on the little grebes and goshawk , the goshawk would be a new bird for me in kent all the best rob

midlands birder said...

yep i love my new scope
as always some day on the goshawk, some day
(bet you got birds i need down in kent)
MB

Robs Birding said...

Thats one of the things i love about reading different peoples blogs from different areas , we all seem to have something a little bit different in are own areas :)

midlands birder said...

you got that right rob
shame we dont get many drift migrants up here tho
MB