Yellow Wagtail Video
Yellow Wagtail
Meadow Pipit
Yellow Wagtail
Comma
Brimstone
Mallard posing as female Garganey
Lapwing
Squire on evening duty
Blogging is harder going in this warm weather. My visits have been less often but we still had some nice birds about. It's interesting the three year listers all turned up following a report on a new Twitter account that actually reported my own survey results that I did for a local farmer. The good news was they were looking in completely the wrong place and the birds have been left alone. To be fair the account has very few followers but this type of reporting doesn't help the species in any way.
Andy Woodhouse recorded a Great White Egret flying north of the village on 25th June whilst the Squire observed a low flying Osprey over Alcester cemetery.
The water levels have dropped a great deal with the main pit & old works lagoon looking excellent for any waders returning south. The Old Workings has attracted up to 4 Green Sandpipers, a Common Sandpiper & a Snipe.
Two of our Yellow Wagtails have been showing well and myself and Paul had an enjoyable session on Saturday watching the birds carrying food for young.
The wildfowl numbers continue to creep up with a drake Wigeon & 5 Teal all seen on the main pit. A good contender for a female Garganey was picked up by Paul on Monday. The ID opinions of the bird have been very split. There looked to be two very similar birds both with similar markings but one clearly smaller than the other. The smaller bird was most definitely a Garganey whilst the larger bird looked to be a Mallard.
50+ Black-headed Gulls are roosting at the pits and the two Common Tern are seen daily flying between Ragley & the main pit. 20 Lapwing & a Redshank were recorded on Monday evening.
On Sunday we drove to Oversley to see the Purple Emperors. The heat had made the bufferflies very active so photos were very difficult. In ninety minutes we recorded 4 Purple Emperors (3 males & a female) and more regular species.
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