winter visitors

The cold weather may bring it’s problems, but one positive has been the welcome arrival of several flocks of Lapwings in North Devon (also known as Peewits or Green Plovers).  When I was as shepherd in Kent during the eighties, I’d see these birds in their thousands during the autumn and winter, taking up residence on newly sown fields. Sadly their numbers have been in decline ever since, so it’s really good to see flocks numbering several hundred in the fields around the farm

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