Stevie babe
Well-known member
Last Friday I made the unforgiveable mistake of walking through my local patch at Riddlesdown (NE Surrey) without the bins. (Well I was walking home from the train at the bottom of the hill).
Up at the top of the hill where the land is totally flat and just about to pass by the old tree that has until recently been occupied by RN Parakeets when i heard what I thought might be the whirring call of a gropper. Mipits and skylarks frequent this patch but this did not sound quite right for either of them but neither is the habitat really correct for groppers. I saw it perched on the top of a long grass stalk but it flew off before i could get too close to it. Also unforgiveably I have not had the chance to go back and check this out so, calling on the local birders, if any of you have been through Ridlesdown in the last few days, do you know if a gropper been seen here .
Steve
Up at the top of the hill where the land is totally flat and just about to pass by the old tree that has until recently been occupied by RN Parakeets when i heard what I thought might be the whirring call of a gropper. Mipits and skylarks frequent this patch but this did not sound quite right for either of them but neither is the habitat really correct for groppers. I saw it perched on the top of a long grass stalk but it flew off before i could get too close to it. Also unforgiveably I have not had the chance to go back and check this out so, calling on the local birders, if any of you have been through Ridlesdown in the last few days, do you know if a gropper been seen here .
Steve