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I imagine we know more about the behaviour and habits of the Long-Tailed Blue from your observations of its now-regular incursions to the UK than was perhaps known worldwide before!
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Dave
No surprise there, Neil. Absolutely majestic birds...even the branch jutting out to the right of the nest looks like it's paying homage to them!Neil Hulme wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 8:58 pm...the White Storks, which successfully bred this year, are a firm favourite with the visitors.
I would say this sites apparent productivity has in part been magnified by social media. Whilst they are around on other sites, once these ones started appearing on facebook and twitter etc it just lead to more people turning up to further fill social media which in turn attracted more people and so on. The site itself, being a hill, also meant that the males hung around hilltopping and lekking, so made easy pickings for their many fans. I'm sure Neil will be able to give a more detailed reply when he's able
Thanks for the response, Neil. It's interesting to see how this 2020 migration correlates with those of previous years. I expect we'll learn a lot more as the time passes by, because this does seem to be a phenomenon that is becoming an almost annual event.Neil Hulme wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:08 pm Thanks, David and Paul. Social media has certainly drawn a closer-than-ever focus on Whitehawk Hill, but there are other factors which have influenced the distribution of sightings.
The main one is that the influx of immigrants all-but-missed a large part of the East Sussex coastline this year; they just didn't make landfall (in any numbers) around Newhaven and Seaford - they were searched for, thoroughly, by expert witnesses. I know of just a single egg being found at Tidemills. However, they certainly occurred in significant numbers further east, at the usual haunt near Dover...
I shall look forward to that, Neil. If it's to be two years in the making, it must be a fairly comprehensive piece of work.Neil Hulme wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 10:01 am...One aspect of my new freelance role, which is highly rewarding, is assisting in the filming of wildlife documentaries. Recently, I've been covering the Red Deer rut at Knepp with a very gifted cameraman. No 'spoilers', but suffice to say there'll be some spectacular stuff hitting our TV screens in a couple of years time.