Great isn’t it - had a small flock of Swallows and House Martins on the Nature Reserve at work last week - still too early for Swifts - when I hear those screaming then I know summer will have arrived
Love the Kittiwakes - too
Where are you based ? White tailed Eagle seen hanging out at Pulborough Brooks recently, West Sussex.Great isn’t it - had a small flock of Swallows and House Martins on the Nature Reserve at work last week - still too early for Swifts - when I hear those screaming then I know summer will have arrived
Hoopoe in one of the local gardens this week. The White-tailed Eagles we’ve had up hear recently haven’t been seen for a while so maybe have headed over the sea or down South.
Project is IoW based - good info here https://www.forestryengland.uk/blog/white-tailed-eagle-project-october-2023-update
whitestorkproject.org
Hi Eeyore
Regularly seen at Pulborough Brooks as mentioned above…..worth a visitI've been scanning the skies around Brighton and Sussex in the hope of seeing one for the last couple of years but no luck yet. I did see a report that one of IOW ones had flown down the south downs as far as Dover and back if I remember rightly. Is there any sort of tracking available for the IOW ones ?
I'll be straight on here when I do
The IoW birds are all satellite tracked but that data isn’t publicly available for security reasons (birds of prey, especially eagles are subject to persecution/shooting, egg theft in this Country and are very susceptible to disturbance around nesting sites so the the tracking data will be used only for professional purposes). When I was working on breeding bird surveys on the Isle of Mull some years ago, there was a 2 mile cordon of local observers keeping members of the public away from the White-tailed nesting areas so the security really is very tight - unless they turn up randomly.I've been scanning the skies around Brighton and Sussex in the hope of seeing one for the last couple of years but no luck yet. I did see a report that one of IOW ones had flown down the south downs as far as Dover and back if I remember rightly. Is there any sort of tracking available for the IOW ones ?
I'll be straight on here when I do
www.roydennis.org
The IoW birds are all satellite tracked but that data isn’t publicly available for security reasons (birds of prey, especially eagles are subject to persecution/shooting, egg theft in this Country and are very susceptible to disturbance around nesting sites so the the tracking data will be used only for professional purposes). When I was working on breeding bird surveys on the Isle of Mull some years ago, there was a 2 mile cordon of local observers keeping members of the public away from the White-tailed nesting areas so the security really is very tight - unless they turn up randomly.
You can follow the exploits of IoW birds on Roy Dennis’s blog (Roy has been at the cutting edge of raptor reintroduction projects for decades and overseas the IoW one in partnership with the Forestry Commission)
Isle of Wight Sea Eagles Archives - Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation
If you really want to twitch a WTE at Pulborough or anywhere else in Sussex, then the rare Bird news apps are very helpful (but you need to subscribe to get the exact details of any sightings) - WTEs often hang around in an area hunting it for a few days, even weeks)
Keep your eyes on the skies for flying barn doors
If I remember- I’ll post on here if any turn up at Pulborough/Brighton.
Keep one eye on the sky above the Amex when you watch our attempts on goal fly into orbit - it’s always good to multi-taskThanks for the link. I see that one flew east along the South Coast, passing over Brighton at 10:00, Eastbourne half an hour later, and Hastings just before 11:00 on 23rd March, just a few weeks back. Most NSCers can't make it that quick on a Saturday
