Sunday 23 June 2019

Feels like summer birding

Male Cuckoo
Grey Heron
Skylark
Pochard juveniles
Canada brood
Sorry a week late with last weeks sightings. Cetti's Warbler became our 128th species of the year when found calling early on Sunday morning and was present upto lunchtime.

The counts were as follows :- 16 Little Grebe, 2 Cormorant, 3 Grey Heron, 11 Mute Swan (brood of two), 5 Greylag, 72 Canada geese (5 broods 25 young), 16 Gadwall, 164 Mallard ( 4 broods 15 young), 3 juvenile Pochard, 73 Tufted, 1 Hobby, 102 Coot, 5 Ostercatcher (no young seen), 5 little Ringed Plover ( No chicks seen), 6 Lapwing (15 Saturday), 1 Green Sandpiper, 8 Black-headed Gulls (1 juv), 6 Herring Gull, 25 LBBG, 3 male and 1 female Cuckoo, 50 Swift, 50 House Martin, 2 Swallow, Green Woodpecker, Meadow Pipits, 30 pairs of Reed Warbler, singing lesser w & Sedge, 4 Raven (family), singing Corn Bunting with possible more than 1 mate. 

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