Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)
Canada geese 40 minimum. A skein of 40 flew east over the golf course, a little later a similar sized, possibly the same, skein flew north.
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| Canada geese |
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| The Coot still bickering |
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| Swallow |
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| House Martin |
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| Common Whitethroat |
Cinnabar moth 1 first of the year
Imperial Rd (Malcolm) 09:45 - 10:10
Buzzard 2, possibly more - one soaring and "hovering" around the marsh area whilst at least one was calling from the copse. Unfortunately no Buzzard calls in this clip.
Raven 1 over to the north
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| Reed Bunting with a Cranefly |
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| Common Whitethroat both with food. It looked like they were trying to persuade the young to leave the nest |
Singing warblers:
Cetti's warbler
Chiffchaff
Sedge warbler
I only stopped off to see how the Stonechats were doing, but it took me 15 minutes to find them. Mainly as I was looking in the wrong place! I think I got the nest location wrong, all the activity today was around these bushes at the side of the road.
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| This shot is taken from where the wooden gate used to be near the roundabout. All today's Stonechat sighting would be within this frame. |
I definitely saw the male and probably the female although I was looking into the light so partially silhouetted.
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| Male Stonechat with a larger potion of food than the other day. The white in the background is the lorry in the above shot |
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| Off to find more food, but he didn't have to go far |
This isn't a great clip, but it does show the abundance of insects despite it being overcast.
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| All watched over by a Roebuck |
I went down early in the tide but didn't see any small waders today.
But I wasn't the only early arrival.
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| A handful of gulls arrived early and waited on the mud for the skear to be exposed. Remarkably, one Lesser Black-Backed was ringed. It's the one in the middle having a flap |
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| A new bird for here, details awaited. Eventually c500 gulls arrived and I must have checked at least half of them, but didn't see another ringed bird |
Red-breasted Merganser 1 male
Eider pair with 3 well developed young.
The only wader other than Oystercatcher was a Whimbrel.
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| Whimbrel and Lesser Black-Backed gull |
