A very warm day
A clear night and tailwind seems to have encouraged a few waders to move on overnight, we will see waves of them passing through until October. The calmer conditions encouraged the passerines to show well again, the weather has dumped many warblers over the weekend and it is easy to see and hear them again. As usual the Holden Tower/Knott Hide are great places to look out for them . Swallows and Martins are gathering on the wires in flocks, another sign of late summer.
The Swallows are gathering.
Above-Juvenile and adult Barn Swallows.
Rushy Pen Hide
Juvenile Ruff, 4+ Snipe, 2 Greenshank, Redshank, 3 Green Sandpiper plus a Wigeon were present today. We may have a work party active in this area again tomorrow. We have a few islands to finish strimming and the boat and trailor to remove.
Martin Smith Hide
The ever reliable Kingfisher was back again.
Robbie Garnett Hide
Still 30 Teal and a few Green Sandpiper, also 2 Black-tailed Godwit.
Knott Hide/Holden Tower
Plenty of Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff. Wigeon, Little Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper.
South Lake
Juvenile Mediterranean Gull, 13 Redshank, 120+ Black-tailed Godwit, 150+ Lapwing, juvenile Black Tern over the deep lake.
Zeiss Hide
5 Ruff (2 adults), 2 Redshank, the Black-tailed Godwit flock, 1 Dunlin, 140 Teal 70 Shoveler.
