Another dry and mainly sunny day with a light SE breeze
Middleton Nature Reserve - Peter and Rosemary Silvester
Cetti's warbler singing near the main pond
Several Hoverflies seen
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| Common Drone Fly |
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| Drone Fly sp possibly Tapered |
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| One of four Toads seen |
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| Robin and Dunnock |
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| The Mute pair always show up when someone arrives at the feeding area. |
Heliport - Malcolm 11:10 - 11:35
I was supposed to be at the chippy for 11:30, I just called in to see if there were any Knot about. There certainly were! I'm not good at estimating numbers in large flocks but there were definitely more than yesterday's 3000.
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| They were spilling over onto the Heliport |
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| In the short time I was there I read several flags including five new ones for this winter. But they were very flighty |
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| They returned this time and settled more towards the middle of the wall |
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| This Oystercatcher ended up having to swim back after a number were spooked. |
My plan had been to check them as the tide ebbed when they sometimes move onto the beach. So I returned at 13:40, but they were all gone!
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| Janet took this shot of a large flock of Knot heading south out from Ocean Edge at 13:30. Almost certainly the ex heliport birds |
I checked the skear later and just 400 Knot turned up, after checking them for almost an hour I failed to see any flagged birds. Shame I didn't have more time earlier!
South shore - Janet
Siskin 2 in the Nature Park
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| Female Siskin |
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| Female Kestrel, also in the Nature Park |
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| Rock Pipit having a stretch on Red Nab |
Pete advises that a Wheatear was seen at Fleetwood today.
