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You are here: Home / Noticeboard / Alan’s Nature Notes from February

Alan’s Nature Notes from February

1 March 2016 By Sue

nature notes 2 logoHello again

I’m writing these notes on February 9th (my birthday as it happens!) because we will be away for a while.

On a recent good day, weather-wise, Margaret and I decided to go down to Budleigh Salterton for a walk along the  Otter Estuary. It’s a good place tob see birds, particularly at this time of the year. A lot of winter visitors arrive there  from colder climes.

In the fields adjoining the river there were lots of wild b1duck, including teal, wigeon, shelduck and, of course,  mallards. Also, a heron, two egrets and a pair of mute swans.

One year we were lucky enough to have a very good  sighting of a water rail there. These birds are smaller than moorhens and normally they are notoriously difficult to  see because they skulk around in the reeds.b2 We also saw three deer grazing at the field edge which I think were fallow deer. Tony Lister tells me that he had two b3goldcrests in  his garden. They are Britain’s smallest bird and I have never seen one here in Payhembury! On a walk down to Tuck  Mill, I saw my sparrowhawk at Willands Ash, plus two mistle thrushes in the field near Blue Anchor.

I recently put some fat balls out for the birds and they have attracted lots of long tailed tits which come every day.

Alan Jones, 01404 841671

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  1. Alan’s Nature Notes from December
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