During the course of the afternoon three separate Whimbrels flew through the site, going south. There were also a Ringed Plover and a juvenile Little Ringed Plover on the Slurry Lagoon.The flock of Lesser Black-backed Gulls contained a Yellow-legged Gull, and several Yellow Wagtails flew through. In the Deep Pit at least two, possibly four, [...] [...]
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This morning a Whimbrel flew through and there were two juvenile Little Ringed Plovers and a Green Sandpiper on the Slurry lagoon. Later two Snipe and another Green Sandpiper came in. The Pond Dipping session netted several interesting creepy crawlies and included a Three-spined Loach and a Ten-spined Stickleback. PS. [...] This morning a pair of Lesser Whitethroat were found on the corner of the Slurry Lagoon by the steps. On the river near the bend a female Goosander was resting on the bank and a Curlew, followed by a Whimbrel flew through. A female Marsh Harrier appeared over the Slurry Lagoon, alarming all of the [...] [...] Six people turned up for this walk, despite the threatened rain. As they collected by the foot bridge first a Migrant Hawker flew overhead and then a Southern Hawker came to check us out, before settling on the hedge. It was mainly green and black but the blue on its last two abdominal segments showed [...] [...] As the people on the Cricket and Grasshopper Walk came out from under the railway bridge, where they had been sheltering from a downpour, a Whimbrel called as it flew over. Also brought in by the downpour were three Wigeon that settled on the Slurry Lagoon. [...] A Whimbrel flew, calling, over the site this afternoon and a distant Hobby was seen. The Common Terns were very aggressively driving the Carrion Crows away from the precincts of the Deep Pit and a Turtle Dove flew very quickly through the site. One Grasshopper was reeling on the Deep Pit bank. PS. [...] This morning a female Marsh Harrier was watched for nearly an hour as it hunted over the Slurry Lagoon. It very nearly caught a Moorhen, which had to dive repeatedly to escape and was saved in the end by an angry Coot. Several times the Harrier settled in the reed bed and was still there [...] [...]  |
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