Okay so this is a new venture for me. If you're looking for rarity reports or to see which scarcity has slipped past you at Sheepcote then your reading the wrong blog ! What I hope to post is about local and low key birding, and my experiences of carrying out BTO/SOS surveys, which hopefully will include locations away from Sheepcote. I hope to get another project off the ground at Sheepcote in spring 2014 (but more of that later).
I originally intended to start this blog in January 2013, but due to personal circumstances this got delayed. So here we are in December 2013, just, and Wick Bottom - the next valley east of Sheepcote - has seen some good numbers of farmland birds. A flock of c50 Skylark and 16 Corn Bunting favouring the stubble fields, with up to 6 Yellowhammer, 4 Reed Bunting and a pair of Stonechat. I'm particularly pleased to see so many CBs; not seen that number since doing some Atlas fieldwork a few years ago over at South Heighton, when there were about 40. Be more than happy to see that number here now. Good also to have a wintering pair of SCs around.
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