Patchwork Challenge

Titchfield Haven This guest blog written by avid patch birder Amy Robjohns and we would like to thank Amy for taking the time to write a very nice piece about her patch in the Solent, she has also provided some photos too of her patch and some of the birds recorded there over the years. We are sure you will enjoy thus guest blog and we hope to have more guest blog posts about other patches in the near future too. River Meon at Titchfield Haven My local patch covers Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve, a mosaic of wetland habitats including a large reedbed stretching up the valley, man-made scrapes, water meadows, and the mouth of the River Meon. Also within the boundaries are some areas of farmland, the Titchfield canal path which follows the River Meon from the sea to Titchfield village, and the seafront. The area is approximately halfway between Southampton and Portsmouth on the Hampshire coast, opposite Cowes on the Isle of Wight, and where the Solent is widest at 4 miles. As a...

  Hello from the PWC team! April was certainly an interesting nationally, the month started very cool and at times could have been said to have felt more winter like than spring like but by the end of the month the temperatures had warmed up considerably - although there was very little in the way of April showers! Which has probably not helped to bring down any cross country flocks of waders or terns inland. The influx of Hoopoes was still on going during at least the first couple of weeks but there was also some very notable species on patches (my favourite being John Bowler's Crane on Tiree) across the countries as well as arrivals of common summer migrants occured almost across all of Britain and Ireland but it has seemingly felt very hard going for any passerine arrival here on the south-east coast! Although there has been a trickle of scarcities and good offshore passage here at least.  Fingers crossed the last couple of weeks of May produce the last sprinkling of spring...