Friday 25th July
Another pleasant start to the day weather-wise: warm and sunny with little wind.
The Meadow is getting rather quiet again. There's not been much rain recently and the floods are starting to shrink. It needs another top up to be in optimal condition for the autumn passage.
There was a large flock of black-headed gulls milling around near the Trap Grounds creek (*) this morning, with quite a few LITTLE EGRETS amongst them (15 total on the floods today). Perhaps the fish are concentrating there as the waters recede. Plenty of grey herons about again and the usual lapwings and the COMMON TERNS are still around. Only a single wader in the form or a COMMON SANDPIPER which was only seen as it flew off towards the river. A single DUNLIN was also reported (WoM) at stint corner (*).
By the boats at the north end of the board walk there is a hawthorn tree which is becoming very popular with the swallows, house martins and sand martins. Large numbers sit within the tree chattering away.
A digiscoped shot of a little egret © Adam Hartley
(*) Map of location names
The Meadow is getting rather quiet again. There's not been much rain recently and the floods are starting to shrink. It needs another top up to be in optimal condition for the autumn passage.
There was a large flock of black-headed gulls milling around near the Trap Grounds creek (*) this morning, with quite a few LITTLE EGRETS amongst them (15 total on the floods today). Perhaps the fish are concentrating there as the waters recede. Plenty of grey herons about again and the usual lapwings and the COMMON TERNS are still around. Only a single wader in the form or a COMMON SANDPIPER which was only seen as it flew off towards the river. A single DUNLIN was also reported (WoM) at stint corner (*).
By the boats at the north end of the board walk there is a hawthorn tree which is becoming very popular with the swallows, house martins and sand martins. Large numbers sit within the tree chattering away.
A digiscoped shot of a little egret © Adam Hartley(*) Map of location names