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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Replacing the lost Dunlin shots,Fly Flatts,(no public access)

                                              Ad breeding Dunlin, c.a. Schinzii
                       Brown nape and long bill point to female.

         Belly patch fringes well worn, ready for moult.



                                                Ringed Plover




                                 2 Barnacle always in with the Canadas.

Good conditions both early morn and late afternoon with 6/8 cloud at 12 degrees on a W>3 and good visibility.
              Just one Dunlin today but giving me chance to get some pics back after losing yesterdays camera full. Either the second bird had gone or both gone and this was a new arrival though the plumage was in a similar state to yesterdays with the black belly patch small and well worn. Hard to tell without an immaculate plumage but probably of the race c.a. Schinzii at this time of year with the race Alpina coming through in mid August. The long bill and brown nape denotes a female. Plumage info from Shorebirds of the Northern Hemisphere, Richard Chandler and the movement info from
The Birds of Spurn, Andy Roadhouse.
                                                   Otherwise there was just the long staying Ringed Plover wader wise along with a few gulls on the shore with 4 Kestrels and 5 Raven in the air.
                                                   The first adult Wheatear in winter plumage appeared today as I scoped the walls at the north end just below the road with 3 juvs in the pond area.
Ideal Osprey skies today but not to be, though I thought I had another Little Egret flying over the moor but it turned out to be one of the white Greylags from TMR.

Visible Migration
1 Swift........................>S
5 Swallow..................>S
1 Dunlin....................blogging
1 Ringed Plover....... blogging
1 ad 3 juv Wheatear.....blogging

Present
5 Raven
4 Kestrel
3 Herring gull 2cy
9 LBB gull
BS
1 White Greylag  >N