I went with Roger to Swithland
Reservoir this afternoon as there had been a report of a Hooded Crow. We arrived to find that it had just
disappeared and after standing for a good hour around the wall with no further
sign we went to check out the fields to the south of Kinchley Lane. Whist we were checking the fields and the landscaped
area of the quarry with no sign Andy Howes arrived and after a brief chat he
continued along Kinchley Lane. Andy hadn’t
been gone many minutes when he called to say that the crow was flying around
over the reservoir. Roger and I got in
the car and returned to find it was perched in a conifer on the far bank but
after watching it for a couple of minutes it flew off and disappeared
again. We spent at least another fifteen
minutes on site but eventually we left as I was hoping to beat the traffic as I
crossed Leicester.
Although it wasn’t a
County-tick for me the last one I saw in the Counties was at the same site in
February 1976, over forty years ago.
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