Wednesday 24 September 2008

24 SEPTEMBER 2008



WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2008

A day of cool NE winds, bringing intermittent rain and heavy cloud.

WILSTONE RESERVOIR
(Evening visit, with Steve Rodwell)

Great Crested Grebes - 19
Little Grebe - 8
Sinensis Cormorant - 34 (with 3 dead birds - reasons unknown)
WHOOPER SWANS - 2 adults still
Eurasian Wigeon (163)
Common Teal (228)
Gadwall (21)
NORTHERN PINTAIL - all 5 birds still present
Northern Shoveler (41)
Tufted Duck (57)
Northern Pochard (39)

Lapwing - slight increase to 527 birds
*EUROPEAN GOLDEN PLOVER - NEW ARRIVALS - 2 birds in with the Lapwings on the mud
COMMON SANDPIPER still present
COMMON SNIPE - 1 on mud
RINGED PLOVERS - 2 present for their second day (SR)

WATER RAIL - adult showing

COMMON KINGFISHER

Common Starlings - flock of 108 on plough by Cemetery Corner

Common Gulls - 5+ (SR)

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