Friday 20 October 2017

Euro Disney take two

After my wife and daughter had told me I was going back to Disneyland again I thought yes it could be better this time of year it being October as the last time I was there was June. This was my first time to go though the channel tunnel, the trip though the tunnel was really quick and in just under half hour and we were through and the birding could start I thought. Unfortunately it was dead, there were miles and miles of farm fields with mostly crops were being grown. The small list of birds included Jackdaw  / Carrion Crow /   Magpie / Wood Pigeon / Collard Dove / Feral Pigeon / Black Headed Gull / Herring Gull / Lesser Black Backed Gull / Big numbers of Starling / Long Tailed Tit / Common Buzzard and a nice surprise was at least half a dozen Common Kestrels which felt like the olds days again when they were common. Once we arrived at Disney and got to our room it looked really good as it was in woodland and I could hear stuff singing from the wood and I was looking forward to my walk the next morning.  Well I was up at 6am and ready to go until I looked outside and it was still dark, it did not get light until just after 8 which was too late for me to go has we were going to be in the  park by 8.30. So day one was quiet and has I did  not have binoculars on me in the park so all birds were seen or heard only on the second day. I had a walk and I was out for hour and half and it was nice to have a break from the park. This a list of what I saw in three days in the park and the hotel grounds a Blue Tit / Great Tit / Coal Tit / Long Tailed Tit and another  surpise was I heard a bird  calling in the park which I thought I know this bird its a Crested Tit and on day two I had great views in the hotel grounds / Robin / Dunnock / Wren were heard only / Wood Pigeon / Collared Dove / Feral Pigeon / Blackbird / Song Thrush / Mistle Thrush / Redwing going over high / Pied / White Wagtail / Grey Wagtail / Goldcrest / Firecrest / 1  juv Green Woodpecker / Goldfinch / Chaffinch / 3 Chiffchaff / 1 pair Blackcap / House Sparrow / Starling and also of note was a bird singing high above the Tower of  Terror which I think it was Black Redstart.

In the Frontierland part of Disney there was a lake and  a paddle steamer go around it and I saw about a dozen Coot / 6 Moorhen  / Mallard / Canada Goose / 4 Little Grebe / 1 Kingfisher / 1 Cormorant / Black Headed Gull was the only gull seen on site / 1 Grey Heron. A big surprise was there were no birds of prey were  seen on site. Also strange was I saw no mammals in the grounds or in the park. I did see three species  of Butterflies which were Red Admiral / Small White and Speckled Wood, I also saw two species of Dragonfly which were Common Darter and Migrant Hawker.

 The Lake At Frontierland
 Paddle Steamer that takes you around lake on lake.
 Good numbers of Canada Geese


The lake near the hotel was very quiet and only had Mallard and Black Headed Gulls. There must be good water in Euro Disney as this is the biggest Fly Agaric I have seen .

2 comments:

  1. Good photos, really like the hot air balloon one.

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  2. Thank you Phil and i was not sure to put it in has i took so little bird photos .

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