Upton Warren (19 Viewers)

[PHW]

To get things started my eight predictions are:

(Tundra) Bean Goose
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Cattle Egret
White-rumped Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Wryneck
Great Reed Warbler

How about,
Franklins gull.
Long Billed Dowitcher.
Little Bunting.
Purple Sandpiper.
Collared Pratincole.

 

[PHW]

Common Crane?

We have had a Crane already but thought to have been from the released scheme and like several other species already seen at Upton not added to the list.
Phil.

 

[upstarts1979]

We have had a Crane already but thought to have been from the released scheme and like several other species already seen at Upton not added to the list.
Phil.

As I've seen one of the slimbridge birds flying over the FLASHES ipit it on the list8-P

 

[Phil Andrews]

We have had a Crane already but thought to have been from the released scheme and like several other species already seen at Upton not added to the list.
Phil.

Hi Phil - what other species did you have in mind?

 

[Phil Andrews]

How about,
Franklins gull.
Long Billed Dowitcher.
Little Bunting.
Purple Sandpiper.
Collared Pratincole.

All eminently possible Phil - a pratincole would be a real dream bird

 

[Phil Andrews]

Whooper Swan and Black-tailed Godwit still at the Moors Pool as per Des

 

[PHW]

Hi Phil - what other species did you have in mind?

Ruddy Shelduck.

 

[Phil Andrews]

Ruddy Shelduck.

Whilst Ruddy Shelduck has undeniably occurred at Upton Warren the BOU have decreed that no records since the early 1950s relate to wild birds.

 

[UW82]

Today's highlights:

MOORS/N MOORS*
Whooper Swan-------------Black Tailed Godwit
Jack Snipe. Showing fairly well on Pool Island at the eastern end.
Snipe (4)-----------------------Lapwing (c200). North of the Moors.
Pochard (10 drakes)-----------Wigeon (5)
Gadwall (2)---------------------Teal (41) (1)*
Shoveler (23)------------------Little Egret (3)
Kingfisher (1) (1)*------------Kestrel
Sparrowhawk (2)--------------Mute Swan (24)
Little Grebe (3)----------------Buzzard (3)
Redwing (6)--------------------Fieldfare (1) (1)*
Siskin (2)*---------------------Redpoll (6)*
Common Gull (1w)------------Greylag Goose (57)
Cormorant (20)----------------Cetti's Warbler (3) (1)*
Water Rail*

FLASHES/SAILING POOL*:
The contractors left the site at 16.15 and birds soon started to return but the hoped for large gull roost did not materialize and no gulls were flying in as darkness descended. A small number of large gulls were seen flying north.

Curlew (12)------------------Teal (2)
Herring Gull (20)------------L B B Gull (3)
B H Gull (c300)--------------Peregrine
Raven (2)--------------------G C Grebe (9)*
Little Grebe*-----------------Grey Wagtail*
Fieldfare (2)------------------Starling (c50)
Moorhen (13)

+ One Roe Deer in northern field.

Des.

 

[Peregrine Trousers]

How about Dartford Warbler?... one over Leamington way today....

 

[Phil Andrews]

October closed on a quite outstanding monthly list of 102 and with the year list inching forward to 143 species.

Recent November's have recorded between 87 and 91 species; we are already off to a good start with Whooper Swan and Black-tailed Godwit. Possible additions to the year list this month include:

Brambling, Mealy Redpoll, Water Pipit, Waxwing, Woodcock, Short-eared Owl, Merlin, Goldeneye, Mandarin, Pink-footed Goose, White-fronted Goose

 

[Phil Andrews]

Whooper Swan still at the Moors Pool as per Phil W. Also Black-tailed Godwit still.

 

[UW82]

Given that the Great White Egret was chased off from the North Moors by the resident Grey Heron on Monday, the attached paper published in this months British Birds already needs amending!




Des.

 

[Phil Andrews]

Given that the Great White Egret was chased off from the North Moors by the resident Grey Heron on Monday, the attached paper published in this months British Birds already needs amending!


Des.

The second ever GWE I saw (in a ditch in Cheshire) was kicked out by a Grey Heron

 

[Spoonbill Finder]

Whooper Swan still at the Moors Pool as per Phil W. Also Black-tailed Godwit still.

Also 2 Little Egret and a Coal Tit on the feeders in front of the Jacobs Hide. Gavin Peplow had a Yellowhammer fly over calling.:t:

 

[Phil Andrews]

Whooper Swan and Black-tailed Godwit still at the Moors Pool this morning as per Andy P

 

[discors]

250 Target The next 8 species to add to the Upton List.

Green winged Teal My original prediction. Should do that every year as a sweepstake raise some funds.
Rosefinch Should have been.
Little Bittern
Night Heron
Penduline Tit
Siberian Chiffchaff
Purple Sand long overdue
Gull billed Tern

 

[upstarts1979]

250 Target The next 8 species to add to the Upton List.

Green winged Teal My original prediction. Should do that every year as a sweepstake raise some funds.
Rosefinch Should have been.
Little Bittern
Night Heron
Penduline Tit
Siberian Chiffchaff
Purple Sand long overdue
Gull billed Tern

my 8 would be
lesser yellowlegs
purple sand
broad billed sand
whiskered tern
bonaparte's gull
cattle egret
little bittern
penduline tit
:t:

 

[Phil Andrews]

250 Target The next 8 species to add to the Upton List.

Green winged Teal My original prediction. Should do that every year as a sweepstake raise some funds.
Rosefinch Should have been.
Little Bittern
Night Heron
Penduline Tit
Siberian Chiffchaff
Purple Sand long overdue
Gull billed Tern

Hi Trev - do you have an insight into the IOC splitting Siberian then?

 

[Phil Andrews]

my 8 would be
lesser yellowlegs
purple sand
broad billed sand
whiskered tern
bonaparte's gull
cattle egret
little bittern
penduline tit
:t:

If the bird at Maxstoke gets disturbed by shooting tomorrow the Yellowlegs could fall very quickly!