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Showing posts with label Grey Plover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grey Plover. Show all posts
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Grey Plover
Wednesday 01 October...Sandy Heath Quarry...0700hrs...Darren Oakley-Martin (soliloquy):
''Grey Plover?''
''Grey Plover!'' (this time with emphasis)
'Plover' then seen...flying off. (an adumbration only)
''Get in!''
Wednesday 01 October...Home...1900hrs...http://www.xeno-canto.org/species/Pluvialis-squatarola
''This doesn't sound quite right.''
''Neither does this...''
''...or this...''
It is two years since I heard Grey Plover, and as convinced as I was that I had one before me yesterday morning, I can't say that I don't now have my doubts. The problem is though, that I don't know what else it could possibly have been. It sounded like a GV, it looked like the flight silhouette of a GV, but I can't quite assuage these doubts that it might have been something else.
Sometimes, you should go with your gut instinct. Icarus once had a gut instinct about something, but look what bloody well happened to him.
That is now three species in as many days that I have talked myself out of.
Exit stage left.
DOM
''Grey Plover?''
''Grey Plover!'' (this time with emphasis)
'Plover' then seen...flying off. (an adumbration only)
''Get in!''
Wednesday 01 October...Home...1900hrs...http://www.xeno-canto.org/species/Pluvialis-squatarola
''This doesn't sound quite right.''
''Neither does this...''
''...or this...''
It is two years since I heard Grey Plover, and as convinced as I was that I had one before me yesterday morning, I can't say that I don't now have my doubts. The problem is though, that I don't know what else it could possibly have been. It sounded like a GV, it looked like the flight silhouette of a GV, but I can't quite assuage these doubts that it might have been something else.
Sometimes, you should go with your gut instinct. Icarus once had a gut instinct about something, but look what bloody well happened to him.
That is now three species in as many days that I have talked myself out of.
Exit stage left.
DOM
Sunday, 27 May 2012
Been quiet but...
...this morning was better. Failed with Quail after a couple of stops at Hatch Lane, Thurleigh. Amazing then to hear one (maybe two) calling when I stopped at the A6 pit, Radwell. Also some Greenshanks.
Then the third SFYT of the morning with a couple of Grey Plovers on the Viaduct Pit.
A little bit of irony for y'all.
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