You’ll have to go the long way round… road closed at Portesham for a month! 🙄
Yellow-browed Warbler, heard only, in outer Withybed from Helen Hide path, Abbotsbury Swannery. @joestockwell.bsky.social@dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social#Dorsetbirds
I’ve done a bit of digging & it would appear that canne is old English for a hollow. The same derivative for the words can & in a round about way… cup. 👌🏻🙂
One I should know Paul but I’m afraid I don’t 🫤 There’s a large one up at Abbotsbury that used to be named on the old Ordnance Survey maps… ‘Shitting Cann’… as it was very convenient for the fishermen!
Ringtail Harrier in off the sea NE at the Swannery, flew up Chesters Hill and lost (while running for my camera!) Orange and small but that's all I could really note @swannerysteve.bsky.social
Our first Shag for nearly 2 years (November ‘22) saved the day. Otherwise pretty dire 🫤 @joestockwell.bsky.social@dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
Also 20 Yellow Wagtails dropped into the reedbeds to roost & a couple of Whinchats were on the slopes. Thought about checking the beach for @paulupwey.bsky.social ‘s pipit as still needed for the patch. Initial sighting well out of the Swannery recording area though so thought better of it 🫤
Went up Chapel Hill overlooking the Swannery this evening to see if @joestockwell.bsky.social ‘s poss Red-foot had reappeared. I was hoping for better views than I got previously but to no avail. Viewing not helped by the 1000’s of hirundines swarming like gnats in every direction. Awesome sight! 😊
Poss juv Red-footed Falcon seen from the Swannery at 4:15 looking east twds Clayhanger farm. Hawking insects with a Hobby, distance meant I could never be 100% sure but amazingly pale undprts, smaller than the accompanying Hobby and clearly had a less "stiff" flight style, no further sign since
I walked up onto Abbotsbury Beach today and had a brief view of a Pipit on the shingle. It called once as it took off, a Sparrow-like 'chillip'. I immediately thought 'Tawny'. It landed again briefly before flying off and lost. All over in a minute but I got these two photos.
