Greenshank visiting main pit
Bund removal
Ringed Plover
I made a number of visits last week with mixed success, Autumn passage seems to be on hold generally with continued warm weather.Wader highlights were 2 Greenshank, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 4 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 5 Snipe and 20 Lapwing. Jon also picked up a Golden Plover on his Sunday visit.
Wildfowl continues to increase with Teal numbers now to 73. Other counts include 49 Little Grebe, 15 Mute Swan, 1 Shelduck, 5 Gadwall, 73 Teal, 200 Mallard, 5 Shoveler, 39 Tufted Duck, 19 Moorhen and 158 Coot.
The dead tree on the south lagoons saw a rise in Cormorants to 25 on Saturday whilst the two Hobbys now seem regular visitors along with 2 Kingfishers.
After the overnight rain on Saturday there were 180 Swallows and 230 Meadow Pipits moving south, a total of 4 Tree Pipits through, 1 Rock Pipit circling main pit calling (equalling previous early date), 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Whinchat, 1 Sedge Warbler, 12 Reed Warbler, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Common Whitethroat, 1 Garden Warbler (in elder by main bund), 6 Blackcap, 33 Chiffchaff, Treecreeper, Raven and 80 Goldfinch. Thanks to Jon for forwarding his sightings which I’ve combined into the above.
On a very gloomy note the restoration of the site by CEMEX has dramatically increased and we saw the start of the removal of the bunds.
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