3 new arrival juv Ringed Plover on the east bank
This is a very young bird with still no black collar
2 Red Legged Partridge
Yellow Legged Herring gull , near adult
Fuzzy images with the distance and heat distortion.
Still checking on this bird
Pale yellow legs and very white head
Tibias look long, possibly the Caspian that I had recently?
Long looking hooked bill.
- Ideal conditions today with a SE>3 and 6/8 cloud cover at 12 degrees lifting to 15 degrees late afternoon. Some very black clouds but only a few light rain showers.
- Plenty sky movement this morning with Mipits, Swallows, Swifts and Lapwings whilst 3 juv Ringed Plovers dropped in from the north landing on the east bank and still present on the north shore late p.m.
- Once again the north shore mud was alive with Wheatear and Mipits and a good and interesting count of gulls early morning with LBBs, juv Herrings, 1 ad Yellow Legged Herring plus Black Headed and Common, both of which are rare to this site, especially the Common.
- Things had quietened down in the afternoon with just 4 ad LBBs on the north shore plus a single gull on its own, ( which always sets off alarm bells), standing out with a very white head but at distance way over on the NE shore ,which is now getting further away with the water rising.
- I,m trying to sort if its the Caspian that was present a couple of weeks back going by the yellowish legs which through the scope looked long above the knee joint,(tibia), plus the bill looked slim and curved at the tip. Its plumage looked darker than Herring but not as dark as Yellow Legged. Unfortunately the photo is not good enough to get any plumage details... to be continued.
- Visible Migration
- 49 Lapwing ...........>W
- 7 Swift..................>S
- 139 Swallows.......>S
- 67 Mipits............>S several bloggers
- 1 YL Herring gull ad...blogging
- 19 Wheatear.........blogging
- 3 juv Ringed Plover...blogging
- Present.
- 2 Red Legged Partridge
- 2 Tufted duck
- 34 LBB gull
- 4 BH gull
- 2 Common Gull
- 5 juv Herring gull
- 4 Kestrel
- BS
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