Wednesday 11 May 2011

TREE PIPIT at the Dukes Gully

The TREE PIPIT was found whilst I was hunting for butterflies in the "Duke" gully. On the wing were Dukes, green hairstreak, common blue, dingy and grizzled skipper, small heat and brown argus (lifer for me). Whilst searching the gully I saw a pipit in song flight from the lone holly "tree" just east of the gully, about halfway up the western slope of the beacon. Having only bins with me I put a call out to Dave Bilcock asking him to come and check whilst I ran back to the car to get my scope. The pipit was frequently perching and singing from the holly and also a bare branched hawthorn about 30 yards south of the holly (Ian Williams).

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