Salford Priors weekly round up

Video summary

Brown Hare

Song Thrush

Black-tailed Godwits

Black-tailed Godwits

Habitat looking good for waders

Squire on migration watch

Red Kite

An extended Easter break gave me plenty of opportunity to visit the pits. It's interesting to note how the arrival dates of the migrants can vary from Abbots Salford despite them being a stone throw apart.

Particular birds of note were the Whimbrel, Common Redstart (that I found by Pophills gate), Black-tailed Godwits and the singing Corn Bunting.

12/4 1st Common Sandpiper, female Pochard, 5 Sand Martin
14/4 2 Common Sandpiper, Corn Bunting, 5 LRP, Yellow Wagtail, Red Kite, 2 Willow Warbler, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Swallow, House Martin & Sand Martin
15/4 Common male Redstart, 3 Common Sandpiper, 3 Red Kite, 18 LBBG, 4 Swallow, 3 Sand Martin
17/4 Whimbrel, 2 Common Sandpiper, 5 Dunlin, 2 Shelduck, 2 Sand Martin
Abbots - Common tern, Common & lesser WT
18/4 2 Curlew, 3 Dunlin, Corn Bunting, 5 Shelduck, 6 Lapwing, 7 LRP, 6 Lapwing, Red Kite
19/4 Reed Warbler - new, Green & Common Sandpiper, 3 Dunlin, Lesser Whitethroat
Abbots 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Common & 1 Lesser Whitethroat
21/4 2 Black-tailed Godwits, 16 Little Grebe, 3 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 10 Mute Swan, 16 Greylag, 45 Canada Geese, 4 Shelduck, 23 gadwall, 11 Teal, 95 Mallard (3 broods0, 5 Shoveler, 99 Tufted, female Goosander, 14 Moorhen, 102 Coot, 2 Oyster, 8 LRP, Green Sand, Common Sand, 5 BHG, 11 LBBG, 1 herring, 1 Cuckoo, small numbers of Sand Martin & House Martins, 10 Meadow Pipits,  Yellow Wags , 1 Sedge Warbler, 10 Reed Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Common Whitethroat, 1 Willow Warbler , 2 Jays, 2 Ravens, 2 Yellowhammer, 11 pairs Reed Bunting & a Stoat.
22/4 No changes


Many thanks to everyone who submitted sighting. We did really well with everyone chipping in.