tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912631876823815037.post249408860108674247..comments2024-03-29T12:37:59.926+00:00Comments on Penny's Hot Birding and Life!: Wryneck at Holme This Evening!Penny Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10611815673583639942noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912631876823815037.post-19327906792869778972015-05-14T17:35:41.942+01:002015-05-14T17:35:41.942+01:00Hi Chris! Ditto! Glad you saw the Wryneck, so plea...Hi Chris! Ditto! Glad you saw the Wryneck, so pleased for you. Also congratulations on getting your picture in the RBA Weekly Review! We met some interesting people that night, artists, biking birders et al! Send me your email if you would like a copy of the video to pennyclarke @dsl.pipex.com<br /><br />Best Wishes PennyPenny Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10611815673583639942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912631876823815037.post-39687589761164229652015-05-14T12:54:38.547+01:002015-05-14T12:54:38.547+01:00It was great to meet up again at Holme and thank y...It was great to meet up again at Holme and thank you so much for helping to find the Wryneck. With your help, I finally found my 40+ years 'bogey bird' and what better place to find it and in such great company. It was a special evening and hopefully we'll meet again, probably hunting another rare or maybe even Mega bird soon!!<br />Chrischrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618027579318301586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912631876823815037.post-40622373396573171692015-05-13T08:38:45.354+01:002015-05-13T08:38:45.354+01:00Lovely...
iconic bird for me, the Wryneck...
when ...Lovely...<br />iconic bird for me, the Wryneck...<br />when I was in forestry, I managed to see one in the "classic" end of dead branch pose....<br />since then, views like yours...<br />hopping around on the ground...<br />including, a couple of years back, in our potager...<br />visible and photographed from the back door.<br /><br />And talking of back doors...<br />we've had a Short-toed Eagle hanging around for a couple of days...<br />there is a lot of haymaking going on at the moment....<br />and I think it is on the lookout for disturbed snakes...<br />and anything else.<br />The first spot was when the crows at the end of the poplar plantation started "machine gunning"...<br />a certain sign that there is a raptor around...<br />usually one of the pair of Buzzards...<br />looked up towards the poplars and this huge raptor was gliding low...<br />into the trees...<br />it didn't get a chance to settle...<br />the corvids went in on the attack.<br />It left....<br /><br />Then we saw it circling on a thermal...<br />with the two crows and the buzzard pair...<br />truce called over this...<br />keeping station below.<br />Got some record shots that helped with ident...<br /><br />The appearances over our heads occured about every three to four hours...<br />so it must have been combing a large area.<br />But only the buzzards reacted after the first showing...<br />with one, or the pair, going up to "meet & greet"...<br /><br />They are known to breed locally....<br />but this was the first time that either of us had knowingly seen one so regularly.<br /><br />We didn't get as much done as we'd have liked in the potager...<br />but, that's nature for you...<br />life sometimes gets in the way!<br />Glad you decided not to let it...<br />and managed to see that always elusive Wryneck!!Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16439261142732764451noreply@blogger.com