The Breeding Season

As from now until the end of the breeding season birds of a sensitive nature will be omitted from this blog due to a small percentage of undesirables who take their pleasure from egg collecting, nest destroying and the killing and trapping of birds.
Reports of non breeding birds moving through the area will still be published. BS
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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Fly Flatts

Greylags, not common at Fly Flatts

Few Twite hanging on in there

Unusual to get summer Wheatears here.

A good supply of Common Sandpiper


Singing Reed Bunting

Fly Flatts 0700-1000hrs. Dead calm and clear blue skies to start then cloud and wind increasing by 0800hrs, SSE >3

A pleasant morning weather wise but most of the waders seem to have moved on. Common Sandpipers were down in numbers as were Redshank whilst Dunlin and Ringed Plover were absent.
Nice to get Whinchat and a Wheatear along with Twite and Reed Buntings whilst 70 + Swift fed over the water. 5 LBB gulls were on the
north shoreline but soon moved off >S down the valley.
An amazing breeding result for Canadas with shoals of young at various ages.

243 Canada Goose inc young
3 Greylag
1 Reed Bunting
5 Common Sandpiper
3 Redshank
4 Golden Plover
5 LBB gull
1 Whinchat
1 Wheatear
5 Twite
1 Snipe
+ usual sp.
BS
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1 comments:

DJSutcliffe said...

It's a shame the weather went off after such a good start. Looks like the water level was still on the way down - but after this lot today it will be on the up this week Bri.