Just a quick update, last thursday i was working at Besthorpe, pulling up some pesky willow saplings which had established on the site of a future wet meadow when i saw a flock of golden plovers. After lunchtime the sound of a large flock of birds was evident, but i didnt see anything. It sounded like distant pink footed geese, but i dismissed it as noises coming from the nearby quarry workings. However, at around 2pm, about 200 plovers flew overhead calling noisily. I got my bins out and followed them and they joined an enormous flock which spanned the horizon, a quick estimate revealed a count of well over a thousand birds. They disappeared into the distance all to quickly, but a few broke off a few minutes later and passed back overhead.
Certainly beats my previous record count of 3 birds at netherfield lagoons last year! hahaha.
Went to the lake district that weekend so i'll do a little report of that soon.
Not really been out since but i'm hoping to go to clifton tomorrow morning to see whats about
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