29 September 2021

Storking...

Continuing the animal related theme ( I promise we'll get back to rc soaring some time soon ).... spotted over the North Downs today...


(world's worst photo of birds in flight)


I give you from left to right; 1 crow, 1 stork and 1 buzzard.

The stork is likely part of a reintroduction programme from sites in Sussex and the Cotswolds. FYI it was not carrying a young baby.

Once common in the UK, it's believed they were partially wiped out during the Civil War when they were seen to be representative of freedom! Since then, hunting and habitat loss has contributed to their terminal decline.

They are still common over in Germany, Portugal, Spain, Ukraine and Poland where they migrate to breed during the summer.

Prior to 2020 there were no records of nesting storks since 1416.

Approx 20 are sighted every year in the UK, and in 2020, a pair bred in the United Kingdom for the first time in over 600 years.

They are excellent thermal hunters, so if you see one.... stalk it!! (see what I did there?!)



24 September 2021

dartmoor

Help out our fellow soarers who fly Dartmoor national park

Model gliding will be banned by next spring




23 September 2021

making the most....


....of the last bits of lovely weather. A thermally afternoon on
Wednesday. More of the same tomorrow?


06 September 2021

It's a sign


possibility of some 'left of field' soaring spots?




 

02 September 2021

a touch of eggcitement

 

A little something to help combat that 'back to school' feeling....