Thursday 8 November 2018

Great White Egret steals the show

Great White Egret (Dennis Stinton)
                                        Great White Egret (Dennis Stinton)
 Great White Egret (Dennis Stinton)
                                        Great White Egret (Dennis Stinton)
 Great White Egret (Dennis Stinton)
Goldfinch
 Greylag flock
 Fallow Deer
Roe Deer
This blog will summarise sightings over the last two weeks. It will be a brief blog as I wasn't present until Tuesday 30th October. (Also posted late as forget to publish)

22nd October - female Ring Ouzel flushed from scrub on south side of Pophills. 1 Little Egret, female Merlin, 2 juvenile Peregrines, Water Rail, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls, Stonechat (Pophills), and a Brambling. (Jon Bowley) 

27th October - 2 Jack Snipe feeding on edge of reeds (Pophills), adult Yellow-legged Gull, Peregrine, Pochard, 4 Wigeon, 15 Shoveler, 9 Gadwall, 250 Lapwing and 140 Greenfinch. (Chris Lane)

28th October - 4 Whooper Swans over and two Otters on Pophills. (Ann & Noel) 

29th October - Great White Egret flew from River Arrow over to Pophills. Tawny Owl calling from plantation, Little Egret (Dennis & Marion Stinton) 
2 Green Sandpipers, 9 Teal, 3 Snipe, 2 Jack Snipe (Pophills) (Paul Hands / Mike Inskip)

30th October - 2 Wigeon, 14 Shoveler, 400 Greylag with domestic Snow Goose (main pit), 3 Snipe & Green Sandpiper (Pophills) (N Duggan)

The Ring Ouzel was our 139th species of the year & the Whoopers were 140th. Now just one away from equally the record. Species we still missing are Grey Partridge, Great Black-backed Gull, Scaup, Goldeneye, Turnstone & Rock Pipit, all of which have been annually recorded. 

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