Friday 29th August: Ringed Plovers
This morning, once more grey and overcast but little wind and quite warm.
The floods are looking rather in need of a top up with large areas of exposed mud which has now dried up and presumably holds little value for the birds in terms of feeding. The GREENSHANK still present though the ruff appears to have moved on. There were a total of 15 RINGED PLOVER around this morning: 2 feeding by stint corner with a single DUNLIN and a very nervous flock of 13 down in the south tail that wouldn't stay still for more than a few minutes before flying off again. The single LITTLE EGRET still feeding in the Burgess Field NR ditch and a large number of grey herons around still. Lots of duck around again today including a few wigeon.
Reader Comment: Lunchtime: 1 Greenshank, 21 teal, 1 Little Egret and a rather distant HOBBY.
One of the many black-headed gulls around on the Meadow at present © Adam Hartley
The floods are looking rather in need of a top up with large areas of exposed mud which has now dried up and presumably holds little value for the birds in terms of feeding. The GREENSHANK still present though the ruff appears to have moved on. There were a total of 15 RINGED PLOVER around this morning: 2 feeding by stint corner with a single DUNLIN and a very nervous flock of 13 down in the south tail that wouldn't stay still for more than a few minutes before flying off again. The single LITTLE EGRET still feeding in the Burgess Field NR ditch and a large number of grey herons around still. Lots of duck around again today including a few wigeon.
Reader Comment: Lunchtime: 1 Greenshank, 21 teal, 1 Little Egret and a rather distant HOBBY.
One of the many black-headed gulls around on the Meadow at present © Adam Hartley
2:05 PM, Friday, August 29, 2008 . Publisehd by Anonymous
From canal towpath;1 Greenshank, 21 Teal, 1 Little Egret and a rather distant Hobby. fraser1947@hotmail.com