Birdwatching/photography.

[PAUL HEARN]

Hello all,

Although this post applies more to Laura and Roger, I thought I would post it here anyway.

On Friday I had a chat with a customer/patient.:lol:
After he recovered from the Brain Surgery I performed on him and he had got dressed I noticed he was wearing an RSPB sweatshirt,:shock: it turned out that he was an employee rather than a member.:roll:

He told me that he worked on a Reserve at Arne and after my quizzing regarding the Bird Species there he told me that although they don't breed there, that a pair of Marsh Harriers and a single Hen Harrier have been seen on the Reserve at Arne this year.:D
Both are Species that I haven't had the pleasure of seeing before, but he also mentioned that Great Grey Shrikes also turn up on the Reserve, which again is a Species is another that I haven't seen before.

It just seems to me that the Reserve is a Goldmine when it comes to both Birdwatching and the opportunity of good Bird photography.

Paul.

[Rogerb]

yes paul you ar corect this is a fantastic place to go to not only to photgrah but to walk around it is masive the wildlife is abundant so much to see on the heathland and the estury lots of british birds and migant the heathland holds many of our native mamals and deer so its a must if you want aday out in the free open air roger b

[laurab]

Last year Roger and I went for a walk there; we saw several deer and also a group of 'twitchers' getting excited over something. We went over and they kindly let us look though their huge monoculars? and we saw an Osprey!

[PAUL HEARN]

AHHH!! Laura and Roger:o

You have both seen an Osprey at Arne and didn't tell me?:shock:

Oh well it just goes to show how great an area this is for seeing such a huge mix of Bird Species,:D many of which I have yet to see (mainly because I spend way too much time in bed :roll: ).

Paul.

[Rogerb]

hiya paul re arne I was rong mate the deer I saw there was sika deer and they are not native to this country the sika deer cervus nippon come from east asia can be found in china russia japan and taiwan they ar allso the same genus as the red deer and can interbreed sika were released on brownsea island in poole harbour in 1898 but a few swam to the mainland and established themselves aint doin bad is they there are an estimated 5 to 10 thousand sikas across the poole basin with about 750 on arne ownd by the r s p b what a fantasic studland is:lol:

[kenny]

hi roger
sounds like heaven mate,we have only got boring spurn point bird sanctuary,and bempton cliffs were i went last year to see the colony of puffins that they have there

ken

[Waxbillman]

theres allot of nice places not far from me.

one of the country parks i saw an osprey several years ago, on its migratory route, amazing.

Matthew