Sunday 19 July 2009

SPOTTED FLYCATCHERS on Wilstone

SUNDAY 19 JULY

WILSTONE RESERVOIR

Great Crested Grebes (22 including the juvenile)
Sinensis Cormorants (14 on bank)
Mute Swans (increase to 42 birds)
Greylag Geese (78)
Gadwall (7)
EURASIAN WIGEON (eclipse drake still present)
SHOVELER (1)
Pochard (12)
Coot (217+)
LITTLE RINGED PLOVER (juvenile still present on spit)
COMMON SANDPIPER (2 on spit)
Common Terns (68+ including 33 juveniles)

Common Swifts (48)
SAND MARTINS (massive influx in rain involving at least 238 birds)
House Martins (similar influx as above with 135+ over reservoir in rain)
*SPOTTED FLYCATCHER (family party of 4-5 birds in trees by new overflow)
Goldfinch (pair feeding 3 young in hedgerow near car park)

TRINGFORD RESERVOIR

LITTLE EGRETS (the two juveniles roosting in bushes near hide)
Coot (huge increase involving 113 birds - presumably from Wilstone)

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