Fairly quiet this weekend all the regular birds about. A Garden Warbler has been showing well around the gate to the rough. Also saw a fox in the Rough on Saturday morning while standing chatting to Errol. Errol then spotted a group of waders flying North East below the tree line. These turned out to be Bar Tailed Godwits, a number of which were moving through the county over the weekend.
The Mute Swans on the main lake seem to have abandoned their nest over the weekend as I didn't see either bird on the nest Saturday or Sunday. The Great Crested Grebes on Fingers seem to have settled on a new nest although that too was abandoned early Sunday morning but it was occupied again just before I left.
Both Sparrowhawk and Kestrel were seen during the weekend.
On Sunday morning I watched, from the dead seat, as a Muntjac walked out along one of the fingers to take a drink.
Still only a small number of Common Terns about and Sand Martin numbers vary wildly depending on the weather. There were hardly any on Saturday but numbers were growing steadily during Sunday morning and there around 45 mostly Sand Martins but with a few House Martins and Swallows mixed in by the time I left the park around mid morning.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007
27th April mid-morning
A dull, rather cold day with a stiff easterly - not what we've been used to lately. Fifteen or more Common Terns over the main lake and a Redshank west over. A this year's juvenile Cormorant sitting alone on a bouy near the sailing club. Perhaps twenty (or more?) House Martins along the east side and the crescent, hawking over the emerging reeds. Between fifty and eighty Sand Martins over the tree tops in 'fingers' at the same time. A pair of Swallows around the beach area. A few pairs of Blackcaps seen together and many more singing males, two Reed Warblers along the main path showed well, three Garden Warblers encountered but both the whitethroats were keeping low. Chiffs and 'Willies' trying to sing against the force of the wind. The 'fingers' GC Grebe now on a new nest, having been deposed by neighbouring Coots. Several Herons looking 'fed up'. Workmen were busy erecting the new fence around the 'long hedge' plantation.
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