‘Diary of an Addicted Seawatcher’<\/a>. The Kielder pre-walk was enlivened by 30-40 Crossbills and 2 recently fledged Common Buzzards who were ‘mewing’ at us until we passed out of their line of sight.<\/p>\nOur three Safaris this week have all been very different; Monday produced excellent views of 2 Otters, Tuesday was much more ‘birdy’, with 2 juvenile Marsh Harriers, Little Egret, adult Curlew Sandpiper and both Barn and Long-eared Owls and yesterday had a more invertebrate focus – Small Copper, Wall, Painted Lady and Red Admiral butterflies, Blue-tailed Damselflies and a Sand Wasp that was watched as it hunted spiders along a small section of sand dune.<\/p>\n
Today and tomorrow I’ll be leading walks from the Ingram visitor centre as part of Family Walkfest 2009. And once all that’s done I’m going to try and get some good photos\/video of Long-eared Owl. We’re going to have a lot of editing\/uploading to do during the winter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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