Wednesday 21 April 2010

Aukfest and the survey from hell

North harbour wall 0705-0945
Auk spp - 141 with 105 in the first hour, all identifiable being Razorbill
Arctic Skua - dark morph landed on the sea
Gannet - 2
Sandwich Tern - 15
Sand Martin - 7
Swallow - 2
alba Wagtail - 4
Lesser Redpoll - heard x 1
Linnet - 4

Dog walk/nature park CBC
Dogs react to a clipboard in three ways: bark incessantly, snarl and growl or leap up at you thinking you are going to feed them.  21 dogs seen.
Tree Pipit - 1N
Meadow Pipit - 2N
Linnet - 2N
Goldfinch - 5N
Lesser Whitethroat - singing male by dog pond
a trickle of Willow warblers with 4 presumed singing migrants
Green Woodpecker heard