Wednesday 12 December 2012

The times they are a changing...

Look at this lovely pool, prime patch habitat

It's had a few good patch birds on it including a fine selection of waders including wood and green sandpipers, black-tailed godwits, ruff and dunlin.  It's also where we caught the scaup this spring and is an all round good patch pool


Unfortunately not for much longer



A lovely trailer full of drainage pipes!

Bugger

not so Happy Days

Bushveld

3 comments:

  1. Oh good they've arrived! Hope you don't mind but me & the rest of the lads chipped in to buy the farmer some drainage pipe for xmas - just to cut you & Reg down to size a bit!

    Money well spent I say!

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  2. Yes, noted these yesterday as well. Nightmare. Generally though another pool always seems to pop up eventually, but this will be a hard one to lose. Best on the patch. They may have some trouble draining it effectively though as it spans a wide area. Here's hoping.
    The work seems to coincide with Charlie, the farmer, retiring and the estate getting to work on the area.

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  3. Which pool is that? Is it part of the reserve, or more imortantly could it impact on the SPA?

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