Dorset Walks

Thursday January 19th Langton Herring & Rodden Hive

Wildfowl on the Fleet We visit this internationally important site at the time for wintering ducks and geese will be at their maximum numbers.
The first part of our walk will be along a rough road built during WWII when the Fleet was used for testing Barnes-Wallis' bouncing bomb. The large numbers of Rabbits in the area provide plenty of food for Stoats and Buzzards.	Stoat
Long-tailed Duck	Reaching the Fleet we should find the first of the huge numbers of sea-duck that winter in this area. With luck, Long-tailed Ducks will be amongst them.
The largest numbers of duck are often to be found at Rodden Hive, reached by walking north along the shoreline. We should see hundreds or even thousands of Wigeon, but the most interesting duck here will be Pintail, usually present in much smaller numbers. Even rarer birds often turn up here, such as the Green-winged Teal from North America that was seen last winter.	Pintail