Dorset
Direct Organiser(s) / Sponsor(s):
Butterfly Conservation Dorset Branch
The Nightingale Experience
Bird List:
- Blackbird
- Blue Tit
- Buzzard 2
- Carrion Crow
- Chiffchaff
- Cuckoo 1
- Garden Warbler 1
- Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
- Green Woodpecker 1
- Jackdaw
- Magpie
- Nightingale 8
- Reed Warbler 1
- Song Thrush
- Tawny Owl 1
- Treecreeper
- Woodpigeon
- Blackcap
- Bullfinch
- Canada Goose
- Chaffinch
- Coal Tit
- Dunnock
- Goldcrest
- Great Tit
- Grey Heron 1
- Lesser Whitethroat 1
- Mallard 2
- Pheasant
- Robin
- Swallow
- Tree Pipit 1
- Willow Warbler
- Wren
- Total number of species 34
Event Information
| Date | 1-May-2011 |
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| Start Time | 0400 |
| Location | Alners Gorse Nature Reserve, Hazelbury Bryan. OS MAP Ref: ST 736100 Sturminster Newton Dorset |
| Admission | free, donations to cover breakfast |
| Breakfast | organic eggs and bacon cooked on a camp fire. Donations please. |
| Suitable for children | Yes |
| Contact | Nigel Spring |
| nigelspring@yahoo.co.uk | |
| Telephone | 01963 23559 |
| Additional Information | organic eggs and bacon cooked on a camp fire. Donations please. |
| Stories | |
| 33 people gathered at 4am at Alners Gorse Reserve in north Dorset - many of them had camped overnight after an evening's moth trapping and BBQ. A kettle was brewed on the fire and for 45 minutes we sat in the darkness drinking tea and listening to the chorus of 8 singing male Nightingales (the campers had been listening to them all night!) before the eastern sky brightened as a cuckoo and dogfox joined in. Just before 5 o'clock the first Song Thrushes and Blackbirds added their voices to the chorus and our group set off to walk through the reserve listening to all the different bird species as they woke up; then onto the adjacent Rooksmoor Common where we heard the first Treecreeper, Garden Warblers and a further 3 Nightingales. During the return walk to the campfire for a delicious breakfast of bacon and eggs, we heard the only Willow Warbler of the morning, Lesser Whitethroat and Goldcrest for the first time and a passing Reed Warbler in the blackthorn scrub. What a perfect way to start the day!
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