Andy Howes had arrange a trip
to a site where he had seen both Long-eared Owl and Nightjar last week.
We arrived in the car park
after negotiating the closers on the A5 at 21:20. When we were all ready we walked down a track
to an open area on the heath.
Our first bird was a Roding
Woodcock as we approached the more open area and we possibly saw as many as
five birds during the visit. Steve then
picked up a distant Hobby that eventually flew almost right over us and a
Kestrel hunted nearby. As the light
faded a Nightjar was heard calling and we retraced our steps and eventually had
brief views of the bird as it flew just in front of us before
disappearing. It continued churring and
was heard giving a single note call presumably as it took to flight or whilst
in flight but it wasn’t seen again. A
second bird was heard from the car park as we were preparing to leave. A Long-eared Owl was observed perched on a
fence post alongside the track on several occasions and two were seen flying
across the heath in fading light. There
has been at least five seen of which we saw three.
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