Tuesday 22nd April: Misc. Warblers + Arctic Terns
Dry, calm and increasingly sunny.
In the morning a walk through the Trap Grounds produced: several chiffchaff, willow warbler and blackcap, a greater spotted woodpecker. Pretty quiet in the morning on the Meadow itself: 2 ruff, 1 redshank, quite a few teal and mallard and some distant gulls.
In Burgess Field NR in the morning near the entrance gate: a grasshopper warbler and a whitethroat.
In the evening there were a pair of ARCTIC TERNS hunting on the floods and preening for a while.
From OXB: "One singing Grasshopper Warbler at the N end of Burgess Field this evening (~6.30). Between the floods and the Thames: 4 WHITE WAGTAILS, 1 LITTLE RINGED PLOVER, 5 Linnets, 3 Meadow Pipits and 11 YELLOW WAGTAILS, one group of three at the N end of the floods and a party of 8 about 100m N of the end of the boardwalk. This latter group contained a male 'flava' form 'Blue headed Wagtail'. The head was very dark, really a slate blue making the supercilium extremely obvious."
In the morning a walk through the Trap Grounds produced: several chiffchaff, willow warbler and blackcap, a greater spotted woodpecker. Pretty quiet in the morning on the Meadow itself: 2 ruff, 1 redshank, quite a few teal and mallard and some distant gulls.
In Burgess Field NR in the morning near the entrance gate: a grasshopper warbler and a whitethroat.
In the evening there were a pair of ARCTIC TERNS hunting on the floods and preening for a while.
From OXB: "One singing Grasshopper Warbler at the N end of Burgess Field this evening (~6.30). Between the floods and the Thames: 4 WHITE WAGTAILS, 1 LITTLE RINGED PLOVER, 5 Linnets, 3 Meadow Pipits and 11 YELLOW WAGTAILS, one group of three at the N end of the floods and a party of 8 about 100m N of the end of the boardwalk. This latter group contained a male 'flava' form 'Blue headed Wagtail'. The head was very dark, really a slate blue making the supercilium extremely obvious."