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Paul Thompson


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9.30am to 10.45am this morning.

29 species seen or heard including:

  • Grey Wagtail 1
  • Reed Bunting 1
  • Swallows 100+
  • Sand Martins 12+
  • House Martins 25+
  • Oystercatchers 2
  • Common Whitethroat 1
  • Mistle Thrushes 3
  • Lapwings 6+
  • Common Sandpipers 2
  • White Wagtails 2
  • Skylark 1
  • Pied Wagtail 1
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker 1

     Thanks Paul.



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Ian McKerchar


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4 Common Sandpiper and 3 White Wagtail present today.

 

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Ian McKerchar


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Mid-morning today:

2 White Wagtail

Wheatear

adult Mediterranean Gull

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Ian McKerchar


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White Wagtail, 2 Swift, Common Sandpiper, 2 Common Tern and Whitethroat present this morning.

 

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Adult Little Gull and 2 adult Mediterranean Gulls at 1pm, all fortuitously caught in the same image!

 

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Ian McKerchar


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Single Redshank on the south shore at 10:10 today

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Ian McKerchar


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Stonehat and 8 Goldeneye present today plus a Curlew flew over north mid-morning.

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Ian McKerchar


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Adult Mediterranean Gull and 6 Goldeneye present at 10:30 this morning.

 

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8 Curlew flew over north at 11:15 today.

 

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Ian McKerchar


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A pair of Wigeon flew east at 10am today.

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5 Shelduck at 12:40 today, then departed west after 1pm

 

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Late news for yesterday early afternoon:

 

2 Brambling south

9 Fieldfare SE

260 Redwing south and grounded

 

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Late news for yesterday morning:

Female Merlin hunting the western hawthorn hedge at 9:35, then flew off SW.

300+ Redwing south before midday. 

 

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Hawfinch flew over low SE at the west end towards the golf course at 11:24.

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Single Wheatear present mid-afternoon today.

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Female Redstart present in the NW hedges at 09:50 this morning.

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Single Spotted Flycatcher in the NW hedges today.

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3 Spotted Flycatcher and a Whinchat present at midday today.

 

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Spotted Flycatcher, 5 Chiffchaff and 5 Blackcap present today.

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Both the Black Tern and Arctic Tern still present early evening, also 6 Little Grebe, and 300+ of both House Martin and Swallow



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Juvenile Black Tern dropped in at 10:50am today with a juvenile Arctic Tern both; still present at 11:50.

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Osprey drifting slowly SW at 10am.

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Juvenile Black Tern 11:40 atleast and a single Swift.

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Hobby chasing Swallows around midday

 

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Juvenile Black Tern present until 12:30 at least, plus a single Swift.

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Tree pipit in NW hedges at 11:10am and 3 Swift south.

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Ian McKerchar


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This morning, 2 Golden Plover flew west at 11:20  and a male Redstart and Spotted Flycatcher were in the surrounding hedges.

 

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Drake Common Scoter present at midday today.

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A juvenile Pochard joined the female Common Scoter today, plus a Spotted Flycatcher was also present. 

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This morning:

Female Common Scoter
Little Grebe 7

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Ian McKerchar


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Female Common Scoter still present at midday today.

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Female Common Scoter present today.

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Common sandpiper present today.

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Female Common Scoter present mid-afternoon today.

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1 juvenile and 2 adult Common Tern, plus a Kingfisher present at 1pm today.

 

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Drake Common Scoter present at midday.

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Adult Mediterranean Gull present today.

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Today up to 6:30pm:

 

2 juvenile Stonechat

Tufted Duck with a brood of five young

Sedge Warbler

2 Common Tern

 

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Up to 1:30pm today:

 

5 Wheatear

2 adult Mediterranean Gull

 

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Osprey circling high over at 11:05am this morning.

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Black Tern present at 10am this morning.

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12 Wheatear this morning.

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Single Black Tern present at 3:30pm

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Adult Mediterranean Gull present at 3pm today.

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Simon Warford


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Today,

2 adult Meditteranean Gulls in ploughed field following tractor
3 Wheatear also in fields north of the reservoir
12 Tufted Ducks

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Late pm, 20 Tufted Duck, 2 Wheatear, 25 Meadow Pipit, 100+ Sand Martin, 100+ Swallows.

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Yesterday (13th) at midday:  Grasshopper Warbler, 1 reeling, Sand Martin 110, Black-headed Gull 310, Tufted Duck 23 



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Originally posted yesterday by Rosemary Naylor:


Late afternoon today, 
Tufted Duck - 6
Grey wagtail - 1
Pied wagtail - > 6
Sandmartins - > 20



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Today,

14 Goldeneye
24 Tufted Duck
1 Little Grebe
2 Oystercatchers.

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This morning:

Goldeneye 8
Tufted Duck 21
Little Grebe 1
Oystercatcher 5
Kestrel 1

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