This evening I detoured slightly on the way home to watch the Warwick Starling murmuration. Quite a sight and particularly extraordinary in that they have chosed a small band of conifers in which to roost, they literally struggled to all fit.
Friday, 14 February 2014
Dartford Chase
After hearing that a Dartford Warbler had possibly been spotted in the Wasperton area on 27th January, I got up early and made my way down there. I was not confident that I would find the bird, as the directions were vague and I also had combed the area pretty thoroughly on 2nd February. I walked up and down the main path 4-5 times and the result was negative besides 18 Linnets, 1 Buzzard, 10 Fieldfare, 1 Green Woodpecker and several Dunnocks.
As time was pushing on, I decided to go home via Barford which has some promising Owl fields (I had been there last night and saw nothing except a lone Little Owl). As I drove along, I chased a male Merlin down the middle of the road before it zipped over the hedge (a bit of a surprise). Unfortunately, I could find no Owls but the place was teeming with passerines and thrushes, definately needs investigating another time.
This evening I detoured slightly on the way home to watch the Warwick Starling murmuration. Quite a sight and particularly extraordinary in that they have chosed a small band of conifers in which to roost, they literally struggled to all fit.
This evening I detoured slightly on the way home to watch the Warwick Starling murmuration. Quite a sight and particularly extraordinary in that they have chosed a small band of conifers in which to roost, they literally struggled to all fit.
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Where in warwick is this happening??. ive jumped in car and gone around warwick 2 nights running but not been able to spot these starlings,had them right over my house last year in leamington and heard they are in warwick but cant seem to spot them, are they out towards budbrooke way?
ReplyDeleteI have not seen them for a couple of weeks but to be honest have not been looking. When it was happening they gathered over Hampton Wood (some may filter off into the Woods) and then flew around a while over the new lakes at Tournament Fields. They then went into some standalone fir trees on Tapping Way (opposite Aylesford Playing fields). However, they are not guaranteed as I did go one evening all prepared with my Camera and just 200 turned up and then flew off elsewhere. At their height I estimate there were about 1500.
ReplyDeleteNice one, will have to take a mooch over there, after last year in leamington where there was a good 8,000-10,000 easily right over my house i was hoping they would come back, but looks like they have shifted course, Got a new HD cam and im itching to get some shots of these fantastic displays, thanks for reply!
ReplyDeleteChecked out the roost this evening. It has reduced somewhat to about 75-100 birds.
DeleteThanks! I spotted a group of around 40/50 at around 5:20pm then another group of around 30/40 10 mins later heading over the brook near whitnash heading towards radford last night so im heading over there tonight to see if I can spot them in radford/offchurch area
DeleteNo problem. I will post a blog entry if they return.
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