Now, I hear you ask, whats he going to be blogging about tonight, its been dark since 5 o'clock?
The truth is not much really but I've just had Bunty on a torchlight walk at Boulmer, south from the lifeboat hut ( now thats local patchwork, walking it in the dark). As we returned to the car a Barn Owl was hunting along the strand line towards the village. Only my second sighting here.
I wondered what it was hunting but I suppose mice will venture from the grass onto the sand and I once found a Water Shrew on Hauxley beach in a Fabric Conditioner bottle. It must have been feeding on sand hoppers and taken refuge in the bottle and been trapped. It was released back to more suitable habitat nearby.
Barn owls are great birds to have on your local patch BB. As for you question ''have I any missing winter birds'' well I could get a Golden Plover, less likely, a Green Sandpiper,or maybe a duck will visit the lake (if it ever quietens down over there!) I've had Gadwall, shoveller, and pintail - all just once. WAXWING ? that would be a nice patch tick.
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