5th and 6th June
A glorious couple of days
with acres of warm sunshine and light winds which swung round from the NW to
the NE through the day on the 5th; we are getting more and more into
the breeding season now and in combination with this and the end of the spring
there were hardly any migrants to mention with just a selection of waders
comprising 156 Ringed Plover, 6 Knot, 50 Sanderling, 19 Dunlin and 77
Bar-tailed Godwits (a large presumably non-breeding flock which looks set to
over-summer).
A handful of migrants were unearthed on the equally
sunny 6th including a Woodpigeon, 4 Collared Doves, a Whinchat (only
the third of the year!), 3 Chiffchaffs (with a couple of birds holding territory
in Holland gardens) and 3 Jackdaws over The Links. The most interesting sightings though involved
a pair of Fieldfares around Gue Park acting very suspiciously and alarming –
there has been one around the area for a while now but today was the first day
that two have been seen together which raises obvious questions….
Knot and Bar-tailed Godwit
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