Sunday, 17 July 2022

a great saturday mornings birding

 warm very warm 


st aidens for 7 am and its full of swifts loads over astley lake 






common terns were showing well 


black necked grebe, 3 cettis warbler, little egret 


for months ive been looking for the med gulls but never found them so walking the path between the western reedbed and lemonroyd i heard a gull calling looked up med gull!!!





a great few hours 

blacktoft 

lots of waders on marshland 

spotted redshank 1
greenshank 6
green sandpiper 2
dunlin 2
ruff 2 
black tailed godwit 24
curlew 8
little ringed plover 6
lapwing 11

also 

yellow wagtail 1
bearded tit 7
marsh harrier 2

other pools had 16 little egrets 7 green sandpipers 80 black tailed godwits 






a nice morning 


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