Friday, 21 February 2025

Biking Birder I February 13th 2010 Isle of Wight and Brading Marsh RSPB Reserve

 Lost iPhone and a defunct laptop, last week was problematical!

New mobile phone, new laptop - now to catch up with my look back at my first ever Biking Birder adventure.


13th February 

Woodman, Woodman Spare That Tree 

Phil Harris

  


                                                
                                       

Off to Brading Marsh RSPB Reserve to meet the warden, Chris. We circumnavigated the reserve clockwise viewing over large areas of wet grassland with occasional large pools. Lapwing and ducks were the most obvious species. Trees had been removed from some parts to give the waterfowl better fly zones. Through the village near the sea we walked before heading uphill to view the whole area from higher ground. Lakes and extensive areas of grassland. We walked back to where we had met by a railway line with a small biological filter sewage works. There were two Water Pipits [132] here, and a Chiff Chaff that looked pale; not pale enough to be a Siberian though. With Greenshank nearby [133] and Fulmar [134] flying along cliffs near St Catherine's Head, the day had been a good one year list-wise with three new Green birds.












29.99 Miles                                                                      2224 feet elevation up & down


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