Sunday 23 October 2011

Bough Beech with Denis

This morning I drove to Bough Beech for a spot of birding with Denis, I did ask Dave but he was already out moling in Goudhurst. The water level at BB is well down at the moment and there appears to be a fence going up on the large side of the reservoir? Sheep were seen grazing where the water used to be and a couple of Deer were spotted drinking from the waters edge.
The days list is quite short as not much appeared to be about, what was is as follows:

GREY HERON
BLACK HEADED GULL
GREYLAG GEESE
CORMORANT
MALLARD
MAGPIE
TEAL
MOORHEN
PHEASANT
WOODPIGEON
CARRION CROW
CANADA GEESE
WIGEON
HERRING GULL
SNIPE
CHAFFINCH (HEARD ONLY)
GREEN WOODPECKER (HEARD ONLY)
ROBIN

BELOW ARE TWO PHOTOS SHOWING THE VERY LOW WATER LEVEL



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2 comments:

  1. Blimey Phil, that water is low, just proves how dry it's been this Autumn!

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  2. Hi Phil, I don't remember seeing Bough Beech that low before!!

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