A slightly frustrating morning today. Firstly because someone had decided to drive a small 4WD truck onto the lagoon in the past 24 hours, got it stuck and abandoned it 😒.
Secondly because a small wader whizzed overhead at about
7.10am before I could even get binoculars on it. It called twice and was
possibly a Curlew Sandpiper but wasn’t seen again.
New in on the lagoon was 1 Dunlin, present on
arrival.
Dunlin byAndy Butler
7 Snipe were at the south end early morning, with
groups of 5, 3 and 3 seen flying west late morning, but didn’t drop in.
Duck numbers were largely unchanged, including 1 Pintail
still but no Shelduck today. First time for a few weeks there hasn’t been at least
one.
Reasonable movement of Meadow Pipits early morning with
an estimate of 50 birds being conservative. Effectively every time you scanned
the sky you would pick up small groups going over, so likely many were missed
when looking elsewhere. Also a group of 8 Skylarks went through and at
least 21 Mistle Thrushes were in fields between the lagoon and the Old
Quarry.
Lingering / passage
summer migrants included 1 Wheatear on Rosa Lane, 1 Swallow and 6+ Chiffchaffs.
