grainthorpe haven area

Interesting re the buzzards, Terry. I didn’t know they’d learned that trick. Were the gulls and corvids giving them a hard time or ignoring them?

Your observation seems to indicate that, despite all the chemicals, some invertebrates are still to be found - at least on the field you were watching.

My recent experience has been that in a lot of fields, the gulls gather behind the tractor and settle, but they don’t linger for very long because there aren’t many pickings to be had.

Obviously, it must vary from field to field.

couple of hours this afternoon, the farmers was tilling all the fields inland, hundreds of birds on the fields best guesstimates are as follows,
250 mixed gulls nearly all black heads few lbb gulls and commons
100 mixed corvids mostly rooks few crows and jackdaws
100 wood pigeons with a few stock doves
2 buzzards on the floor following the tractors
then the haven
2 kingfisher
27 little egret
2 further buzzards
22 redshank
greenshank
4 yellowhammer on the hay bales
kestrel
distant marsh harrier
5 cormorant
dabchick
terry whalin
forgot 25 pied wags on the tilled fields
terry whalin and i forgot the stoat, a senior moment lol