Stunning light allowed me to get some pleasing images of Wheatear
Pair on the gravel
These take some beating
Little Ringed Plover
Wheatear near South Lagoons
Small Tortoiseshell
And another
Sedge Warbler
Little Ringed Plover
Sedge Warbler
Adela Raamurella (Long horned Moth)
Shelduck
Barn Swallows
Five additions for us this week at the pits. We have a maximum of four Wheatears that were around the Old Workings and the south lagoons. The light on the morning I found them was exceptional enabling me to take some really pleasing photographs. The Wheatears were more over due for us. Additional year ticks came care of 2 Little Egrets (Mark Clarke), a Garden Warbler on Saturday & a Common Sandpiper on Sunday evening (Paul Hands).
My favourite moment of my visits was watching a Sedge Warbler, one of three males, singing at close quarters. This week was my first sighting of both Sand & House Martin, (Sand Martin seem to out number the House Martin by a considerate amount). The Barn Swallows are coming through in steady number also. We haven't had a Swift yet but they have been recorded by the team over Bidford who also had a Hobby.
Other sightings included a male Cuckoo now singing and covering a very large area, 2 Shelduck and there are notable more Reed Warblers singing.
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