What goes on the Water at nearly 60 mph and prefers to pierce waves rather than jump over them. The Very Slender Vessels concept is simple – instead of slamming across the top of waves, it is designed to slice through them. Adopted by several military and enforcement services around the world. It had a hull low to the water, making it harder to detect on radar.
Spotted in the Solent this afternoon.
#Wordless Wednesday
The Osprey became extinct in the British Isles in 1916 but recolonised in 1954. Scandinavian birds migrate through Britain on the way to their breeding sites.
The Ospreys’ main UK stronghold is now in Scotland. In 2001, they began breeding in England in Cumbria, at Rutland Water. {here they were introduced}.
UK breeding:240+ pairs.
Birds are seen in our area on migration – We spotted this bird with fish today at Titchfield Haven which I expect stopped off for lunch on passage North.
Far off so zoomed in. A rare spot for me in the UK.
Canada goose wash and brush up.
Easter Saturday walk from Gosport Life Boat Station to Gilkicker point past fort Gilkicker.
The lifeboat of the Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service is independent from RNLI. The lifeboat was being launched for an exercise as we arrived at the carpark.
Fort Gilkicker is a one of the historic Palmerston forts around Portsmouth Harbour. Gilkicker was started around 1853. Built at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire England to dominate the key anchorage of Spithead.
Some birdlife from Gilkicker Point.
Greenfinch.
Dartford Warbler.
High tide views from Mayflower Park Southampton.
Shipping boats! Eemslift Hendrika {not sure if the cargo is being loaded or unloaded}.
Wyestorm and Anvil Point at Marchwood Military Port.
Another walk down the River Hamble dry but very windy – hard to stand up at times!
Curlew.
Dark-bellied Brent goose.
Wigeon.
Greenshank. There are less than 1,000 Greenshanks in the whole country during the winter, but soon they will be heading North towards their breeding grounds.
Common Redshank.
Lesser black-backed gulls.
Remembrance seats on the shore at Netley, near the site of the old military hospital.
Avocets have started to arrive here on the South Coast. Ist photographs of these beautiful birds this year.
You will note one of the birds is ringed. Info sent to ringer – below is their reply.
Thanks for the sighting of GB/BG.
I ringed this bird as a chick in June 2014 at Needs Ore Reserve (beside the Beaulieu River estuary).
Since then it has spent most of its time at Titchfield and Farlington. However, it was seen over the winter of 2017-18 at Poole Harbour in Dorset.
In the summer of 2018 it bred at Titchfield and since then there have been summer and winter sightings of it at Titchfield, suggesting it now spends most of its time there.
Continued Reflections from my World. 