3rd July: 2 green sandpipers
This morning overcast, little wind and the occasional shower.
There was no sign of the 3 wood sandpipers this morning but the good birding action on the Meadow continued with 2 GREEN SANDPIPERS. One only gave its presence away as it flew off, the other was feeding on the north shore for a while before flying. It was not seen whether this second bird landed elsewhere on the floods or departed altogether . There were also a couple of ringed / little ringed plovers on the north shore. It is suspected that they were juvenile RINGED PLOVERS though they were not seen clearly enough to be certain. There were also 2 LITTLE EGRETS which were initially giving excellent views from only 30 years away at Burgess Field gate before flying off to the north shore.
Apart from that the COMMON TERNS were still very much at home and there were still the large number of lapwings and black-headed gulls including plenty of junveniles. "Barry" the BARNACLE GOOSE was back, feeding with the feral grey-lags.
A general shot of typical birds on the Meadow at present. If you look carefully you can see one of the common terns flying above the heron and also the two little egrets in the background. © Peter Styles
There was no sign of the 3 wood sandpipers this morning but the good birding action on the Meadow continued with 2 GREEN SANDPIPERS. One only gave its presence away as it flew off, the other was feeding on the north shore for a while before flying. It was not seen whether this second bird landed elsewhere on the floods or departed altogether . There were also a couple of ringed / little ringed plovers on the north shore. It is suspected that they were juvenile RINGED PLOVERS though they were not seen clearly enough to be certain. There were also 2 LITTLE EGRETS which were initially giving excellent views from only 30 years away at Burgess Field gate before flying off to the north shore.
Apart from that the COMMON TERNS were still very much at home and there were still the large number of lapwings and black-headed gulls including plenty of junveniles. "Barry" the BARNACLE GOOSE was back, feeding with the feral grey-lags.
A general shot of typical birds on the Meadow at present. If you look carefully you can see one of the common terns flying above the heron and also the two little egrets in the background. © Peter Styles