by ianinfrance » March 26th, 2011, 5:28 pm
Well, Jacquie's been a keen birdwatcher for at least thirty years and this was the first time for her.
This is a good area for varied fauna. Because there's a very complicated geology, with granite and bog, free draining schist, limestone, alluvial river valley and sandstone, all within about 20 km of us here, we have a very widely varied flora, as you might have seen from my website. In addition, being deeply agricultural there's practically no atmospheric pollution and so plants that don't tolerate pollution are found here too. So we get things like asphodels, broomrape , yellow rattle and
So with that variety of plants and trees, we have loads of animals that rely on them - butterflies and moths of course, but the birds that live with them too and birds of prey. Buzzards are tw a penny, black and red kites are common, sparrowhawks merlins and harriers are all fairly common while perigrines, booted and short toed eagles all have their regular nest sites and can easily be seen. Loads of game too.
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All the best
Ian
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