A return visit to Lemsford Springs this morning in the hope that the Jack Snipe that had been reported yesterday would still be present. We spent a couple of hours searching every area without any luck, only finding three Common Snipe for our efforts. We later found out that someone had decided to walk along the grass banks in front of the hides yesterday completely ignoring the no-entry signs, and had inevitably flushed everything!
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| The entrance gate at Lemsford Springs |
Our main target this morning was to try to see a Little Owl. Before driving to the site, we drove along the fields near Baldock and soon connected with both target species, Corn Bunting and Grey Partridge. We also had a close view of a Red Kite on a telegraph pole and a distant scope view of a Merlin on the ground.
The final stop was at a park where we had seen Little Owls previously. It took longer than expected to find, but eventually, one was spotted. It spent quite a while sleeping up against the tree trunk. When it did wake it became a lot more active. It made several brief flights to various branches before it settled on a stump at eye level.
We set out this morning hoping to see four new birds for the year and we managed to see three of them.
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