March Bird Watch

The map ref for the bird walk at Denny Wood on 24th March is SU 334 067. Meeting time 10am. Denny Wood is on the road from Lyndhurst to Beaulieu Road Station. It is on the right hand side of the road on a sharp bend about 2 miles from Lyndhurst.

February's bird watch
Another cold day, bitter in fact but still fourteen in all met up once again at the Eling Tide Mill. This time we reversed the walk and exposed ourselves to the blowing unchecked wind along the tidal shores. We were rewarded by a spectacle above the sheds at Eling Wharf of a buzzard being mobbed by gulls and crows. Thirty-two birds in total were observed and recorded. On the way through the old Churchyard we noted the tree skewered by an old railing and the now neglected gravestone of the two young men who perished by drowning so many years ago.
We then crossd the road through the cemetary and along the reed beds and over the bridge back to where we started. On reaching the toll gate we made our separate ways with some of us heading for the comfort of the cafe and museum where we were revived with a generous mug of coffee. After we broke up we went and looked at the museum and found it worth while to visit for anybody who like us had never been. http://www.totton-and-eling.demon.co.uk/heritagecentre.htm
Mike sent this.
The colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit seen feeding opposite the slipway, was ringed as an adult female by the Farlington Ringing Group at Eling Great Marsh on 25 Nov 1998 and has been sighted many times in Southampton Water between Eling and Titchfield in the intervening years. Also in April 2000 and again in April/May 2002 it was seen on its breeding grounds in Iceland by Peter Potts (et al) who kindly sent me the above information. He would welcome any further sightings of ringed godwits and says we may also encounter colour-ringed Oystercatchers or Wigeon,

February Bird Watch

Meet up 10.30am, February 24th, at the Eling tide mill - late start due to tides.