After yesterdays rain today was sunny with partial cloud in the morning becoming cloudier in the afternoon and warm so not surprising today has been about migrants brought down by yesterdays rain or birds showing well and very mobile after having a difficult time feeding in the recent conditions.
Birds recorded were:-
Black Tern increased to four off rainbow corner
Common Sandpiper 2 in the morning increasing to 5 in the afternoon
Little Ringed Plover one in toft shallows
Curlew
Shoveler 2 in toft shallows
Whinchat juvenile between toft shallows and M45
Wheatear 2 juveniles and one adult male farborough bank
Yellow Wagtail 8 below farborough bank including a bird that Bob managed to remove a fishermen’s fly from its bill.
Whitethroat 9 between sewage farm and country park
Reed Warbler one toft shallow pond
Lesser Whitethroat 4 in perimeter hedge below farborough spit and one in sewage farm
Spotted Flycatcher 2 in perimeter hedge below farborough spit and one in country park
Garden Warbler 4 between sewage farm and country park and 2 in toft shallows
Also present:-
Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, 11 Teal, 5 Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Great-spotted Woodpecker, 4 Stock Dove, 2 Green Woodpecker, Swallow, House Martin and 10 Sand Martin.
Other sightings included 2 Red Underwing, 14 Speckled Wood, 6 Small Tortoiseshell, Common Blue, Large White, Green-veined White, Ruddy Darter and Migrant Hawker
John, Tim and I did the roost tonight hoping for a Sabines Gull and though the roost was impressive the light and wind were agaist us so we struggled. Earlier in the day Tim found a Wood Warbler on Napton on the Hill.
Arrived home in the dark and already 2 Old Lady in trap.
Richard
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