October 10, 2008

Thursday 9th October

DURLSTON COUNTRY PARK

After a false start to this revived Blog, and after an atrocious previous weekend, a lovely sunny Thursday afternoon saw us at Durlston Country Park near Swanage for a clifftop walk. We were hoping for Clouded Yellow butterfly, but had to be content with some pretty decent birds, which included six Kestrels, four Peregrines, Wheatear, Dartford Warbler and a superb male Merlin. We also saw a very inquisitive Stoat.

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Wheatear

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Kestrel

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Peregrine

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Stonechat

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Stoat

Posted by Frampton25 at October 10, 2008 9:25 AM