Monday 31 May 2010

Just one bird

North Harbour Wall

An early morning 2 hour watch produced just one sighting - a Gannet.

Middleton Industrial Est
8 tufted duck (5 male)
4 little grebe
1 family of newly fledged Long Tailed Tits
Insects
Butterflies - Common blue & Small Heath everywhere + many whites, peacock & small tortoiseshell
+ 1 Wall Brown
Dragon flies - 3 x four spot chaser + many blue-tailed, 2 x common blue and 1 x large red damselflies
First grasshopper "chirruping"

Elsewhere
Spoonbill still on the Allen Pool at Leighton Moss