Not a bad weekend for cricket either
There's been a bit of movement this week which coincided with Chris returning from his seasonal voluteering on the tern colony in Anglesey.
Chris marked his return by finding a Whinchat in the Old Workings and a Greenshank on the main pit. Two Clouded Yellow Butterflies were also noted on the same day.
Our Bidford regulars have been seeing the Hobby over the town & river but sightings at the pits have not been common.
A Great Crested Grebe & juvenile Pochard were recorded before Sundays count which was completed by Jon. The count included 38 Little Grebe, 1 Little Egret, 310 Greylag, 140 Canada Geese, 29 Teal, 2 Shoveler, 55 Tufted Duck, 1 adult Golden Plover (circled several times), 1 Snipe, 2 Green & 1 Common Sandpiper, 800 BHG, 100 LBBG, 2 Herring, 1 1W YLG, 1 1W Caspian / hybrid, 1 Common Tern, 1 Wheatear, and a big influx of warblers including 3 Sedge, 6 Lesser & 5 Common Whitethroat, 60 Chiffchaff and 9 Willow Warblers.
The Whinchat takes us to 133 for the year.
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