Wednesday 8th October: Dunlin
This morning absolutely gorgeous autumn weather with clear skies, bright sunshine and hardly a breath of wind.
The birds were plentiful on the Meadow this morning with the 30+ BLACK-TAILED GODWITS still gracing us with their presence; 4 or 5 RUFF still around; 40+ GOLDEN PLOVER; at least 20 SNIPE showing themselves reasonably well. In addition there were 3 DUNLIN at the North Cove which was nice to see after an absence for a while. Embarrassingly, I did initially think they were something rarer and even called out someone else to take a look before realising what they actually were.
Plenty of ducks, lapwings and gulls also around. A couple of skylarks and a single meadow pipit flew over
Off-county news: Bucks - great grey shrike near Ivinghoe and ferruginous duck back at Calvert, Berks - lesser scaup at Queen Mother reservoir.
One of the ruff this morning © Adam Hartley
The birds were plentiful on the Meadow this morning with the 30+ BLACK-TAILED GODWITS still gracing us with their presence; 4 or 5 RUFF still around; 40+ GOLDEN PLOVER; at least 20 SNIPE showing themselves reasonably well. In addition there were 3 DUNLIN at the North Cove which was nice to see after an absence for a while. Embarrassingly, I did initially think they were something rarer and even called out someone else to take a look before realising what they actually were.
Plenty of ducks, lapwings and gulls also around. A couple of skylarks and a single meadow pipit flew over
Off-county news: Bucks - great grey shrike near Ivinghoe and ferruginous duck back at Calvert, Berks - lesser scaup at Queen Mother reservoir.
One of the ruff this morning © Adam Hartley