Thursday 23 June 2016

Bits & pieces weekend

Quail potential
Grey Heron
Coot numbers increasing weekly
Cheeky fox cub
Banded Demoiselle (Male)
Specked Wood
Meadow Brown
Common Blue

It was pretty much business as usual at Salford Priors. After a few weeks of the water level dropping, some very heavy downpours have seen the levels rise to winter levels around the site. The site has always looked perfect to record Quail so I've been trying all the fields within the patch boundary but no luck to date.

A Common Tern appeared early on Sunday morning but moved on after a quick lap of the main pit. Two Green Sandpipers were on Pophills and were then seen on the main pit later in the day. Three Little Ringed Plovers are still around site but don't appear to be nesting. Two Oystercatchers can continue to be observed but don't appear to be settled.  Raptors are limited to Kestrel, Buzzard and Sparrowhawk.

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