1. In Toronto again, and the Ring-Billed Gulls were around the Station. The call is quite distinctive; higher pitched and more of a yelp than a Herring Gull, like someone has trod on their feet.
2. Back at the Scrape; lots of Gadwalls, a pair of Teal, not much else.
3. Center-Parcing again in Thetford Forest. If I heard one Siskin I heard a hundred. We had a Mallard nesting by the chalet with 10 eggs. Very hard to see - we had to drop a bike on it to find it. When it went off, it covered the nest in down, making it completely invisible. Do Mallards have a down-covering gene? Or do they have a problem solving gene? Or do they have a learn from Mother gene?
4. Chiffchaff, obviously, but nothing else for me yet this spring ...
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There's been a Marsh Warbler at Amwell, showing really well. I went over late this afternoon with a firm 5:30 deadline. On arrival a sm...
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The last ice age ended around 11,000 years ago. The temperature rose by several degrees over a period of around a thousand years to produce ...
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