Several Quail were found calling from fields of beans along Renew's Drove, about a mile north of Crowland a couple of days ago. Both my co-author Dave and myself went out there last night (Wednesday, 27th May) about 7pm to listen. It was a pleasant evening at the end of a rather warm day, but a bit breezy and we found several other birders strung out along about a kilometre of road when we got there. We did hear a single Quail which was calling rather sporadically from the western end of the middle of the three fields of beans, but it was very occasional bursts of two or three calls. This is a very open area of high intensity cultivation, so it was interesting that there were a number of "good" birds about including several Corn Buntings singing, Yellow Wagtails flitting about (my first of the year!), a fairly distant Cuckoo and, as we were leaving, a distant Barn Owl hunting. The ditch edges and one rather low and sparse Hawthorn hedge along the roadside also supported Reed Bunting, Whitethroat and Sedge Warbler. This clip includes some Quail calls and Corn Bunting song:
Trip: 21 miles, 4kWh
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