Peter Jones, "Hampshire Diary"

• Monday, October 26, 2009 - Baddesley Common

Spent late afternoon around Baddesley Common and Emer Bog. To be honest, given the weather and time of year, it was very difficult to choose anywhere to go for a couple of hours. Whilst there, I stumbled on a whole new strip of woodland that I'd never really checked out before, but the paths seem well established, and a couple of dog walkers were using it. The problem I have with Baddesley Common is that it is huge, you could spend pretty much all day in there, and still not cover all the habitat. Did stumble across a small Tit flock, but nothing of interest amongst the Long Tailed and Blue Tits. Pick of the Finches were two Lesser Redpolls. There were also around 20 Redwings overhead, and a Siskin. Dusk at Emer Bog was fairly quiet but a Fox put 5 Snipe up which would otherwise have gone undetected, and a Water Rail was calling. The Common itself is looking better than I have seen it previously. Plenty of Meadow Pipits, and long "Fallow" grassland. Record shots below of Fox and Redpoll! The fox was taken at 1/4 second on ISO 6400.. miracles do happen!

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