It's been a fairly quiet couple of weeks but on the 1st I had 2 Redpoll and a Yellow Wagtail fly over and heard our first Redwing of the autumn.
Then on the 7th John found a Firecrest along the western side near the water treatment works. This is the first site record since January 2003 I think. He also had 1 Redwing.
This morning John and I headed out and were pleasantly surprised with a pretty good birdy morning. We had 55 species in just over 3.5 hrs on site and we didn't even go up the valley! The best were 2 Golden Plover over, 3 Redwing, 60+ Skylark over, 2 House Martin through (+2 other unidentified hirundines), 1 Siskin over, 1 Blackcap in scrub on the edge of the wood, 1 Snipe over and c.6 Chiffchaffs around. There was also numerous Meadow Pipits over but we didn't keep track of numbers.
Then on the 7th John found a Firecrest along the western side near the water treatment works. This is the first site record since January 2003 I think. He also had 1 Redwing.
This morning John and I headed out and were pleasantly surprised with a pretty good birdy morning. We had 55 species in just over 3.5 hrs on site and we didn't even go up the valley! The best were 2 Golden Plover over, 3 Redwing, 60+ Skylark over, 2 House Martin through (+2 other unidentified hirundines), 1 Siskin over, 1 Blackcap in scrub on the edge of the wood, 1 Snipe over and c.6 Chiffchaffs around. There was also numerous Meadow Pipits over but we didn't keep track of numbers.
Late news - on the 27th July John saw a colour ringed Black-headed Gull (it looks like I forgot to put it on the blog!) and this week he had confirmation that it was ringed in 2013 near Delfzijl in the Netherlands.
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