Common Buzzard - Baltrasna, Ashbourne

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Hurray for Springwatch

Well the Sky+ kicked in at 8.00pm yesterday and will keep going for the next few weeks so Chris, Kate and Co will be available for my daughter (and I) to delight in! 

She loves all things badgers and foxes (and obviously birds) and who do you think made an apperance on the very first episode?  badgers an foxes of course.

We'll sit down later and when the title music rolls there will be one very excited 4 year old in Ashbourne!

Big kestrel

It's been a while since my last post, work is managing to keep me occuppied (thankfully).  Anyway, been to most of the usual haunts over the last couple of weeks but nothing noteworthy to report.  Swifts, swallows... blah blah blah

Driving up the M2 Sunday evening and from a distance (a long one) I seen the biggest kestrel ever, hovering over the roadside!  Bloody 'ell, it was massive.  Anyway as I got nearer it turned out to be an adult buzzard using the very strong headwind to hover...... I felt a little bit stupid....... you would too....... no, you would!