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Phil Andrews · May 30, 2015

The honeypot is even sweeter and stickier!

"Early Riser" Wakeman reports a Gadwall with a brood of 8 ducklings from the East Hide at the Moors Pool :t::t:

wheatearlp · May 30, 2015

I was in bed 😊 However now in east hide having seen eight Gadwall chicks. Other breeding numbers as yesterday and Thursday... so far.

Phil Andrews · May 30, 2015

I wonder where the nearest site is that has breeding Shelduck, Shoveler AND Gadwall?

Phil Andrews · May 30, 2015

Rob E - further to your query yesterday, I cant find any data on the average life expectancy of Avocets but the oldest bird recorded in the wild was 16 years 1 month and 19 days (rung in the nest at Minsmere in 1971 and recorded at the same site in 1987)

forgetfulelephant · May 30, 2015

Phil Andrews said:
Rob E - further to your query yesterday, I cant find any data on the average life expectancy of Avocets but the oldest bird recorded in the wild was 16 years 1 month and 19 days (rung in the nest at Minsmere in 1971 and recorded at the same site in 1987)

Wow! Interesting. Cheers Oracle! :t:

Phil Andrews · May 30, 2015

Looks like the BTO website is a little out of date - here is reference to an Avocet 23 years old! http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news...chwell_marsh_reserve_after_23_years_1_1981060

forgetfulelephant · May 30, 2015

Phil Andrews said:
Looks like the BTO website is a little out of date - here is reference to an Avocet 23 years old! http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news...chwell_marsh_reserve_after_23_years_1_1981060

Even more Wow! :t: So that adds to the knowledge that young birds often don't return to where they were hatched........not for 23 years anyway!:-O

wheatearlp · May 30, 2015

On flashes Shovelers are looking for somewhere peaceful to take their three remaining chicks. Everything else as earlier this week, although I'm still searching for the 23rd Avocet chick (brood I being uncooperative). All as you were on Moors and Sailing Pool too.

wheatearlp · May 30, 2015

All 23 Avocet chicks present and correct. Shovelers back on 3rd Flash. Grey Heron and up to four LBBGs loafing there, which may explain why 8 has become 3.

Phil Andrews · May 30, 2015

More Red-necked Phalaropes moving up the west side of the country today with birds in Cheshire and the Cotswold Water Park - perhaps we will have yet another found on a Sunday morning by Dave J?

forgetfulelephant · May 30, 2015

wheatearlp said:
Re the Broadmeadow Oystercatchers - on Thursday an adult flew to the east shore of B'meadow Pool but didn't reappear. Odd place for an Oyk to go given the vegetation there... unless there was a chick to feed? Also on the chick front the four Greylag goslings were on the Sailing Pool.

Mike I watched this Oyc go into that area twice with worms today so a chick looks likely.

1. Oyc carrying food into East bank of Broadmeadow.
2. Gadwall ducklings
3. Gadwall Mum & young
4. The terns are really giving someone's fish pond a pounding. @nd Goldfish I've seen brought in.

Only 1 Lapwing chick seen on Southern Island, maybe more. Another BHG chick taken by Herring Gull. Reed Warbler collecting food in front of East hide so assume young to feed somewhere or maybe a Cuckoo?

wheatearlp · May 30, 2015

forgetfulelephant said:
Another BHG chick taken by Herring Gull.

If it was the second summer Herring then it took one this morning too.

forgetfulelephant · May 30, 2015

wheatearlp said:
If it was the second summer Herring then it took one this morning too.

Yes it was.

Phil Andrews · May 30, 2015

wheatearlp said:
If it was the second summer Herring then it took one this morning too.

This bird was also responsible for yesterday afternoon's snatch - clearly has developed a taste / aptitude

John Layj · May 30, 2015

Brief visit to Flashes then Moors. The two Black-tailed Godwit flew out of the Flashes as I was leaving, and two were present at the Moors when I arrived, presumably the same birds. Gadwall family was showing well though I couldn't find any more than 5 ducklings at one time. Maybe there were more since they're very active and in and out of the reeds all the time.

Janette55 · May 30, 2015

Visited the Moors around 6pm to look for the gadwall family. It took a while but I was eventually rewarded with views of the female and her eight sweet ducklings. The habitat seems perfect as there are plenty of places for the little ones to hide. They seem to have chosen the same area as the shoveller family did last year, so hopefully they will have the same survival success. The oystercatcher and its chick were on Snipe Island; it is looking healthy. There were two black tailed godwits on Shingle Island, presumably the same pair that have been over at the Flashes. I also saw the great crested grebes with their chick. Other highlights were a little grebe, the terns on the rafts and lots of screaming swifts.

IvanS · May 30, 2015

very busy on the flashes this lunchtime - felt sorry for the mallard family especially when it got 'moved' on by a shelduck and a trio of avocets at the same time.

not too sure about the warbler (from the Jacobs Hide on the Moors) - would appreciate an id

IvanS · May 30, 2015

Phil Andrews said:
This bird was also responsible for yesterday afternoon's snatch - clearly has developed a taste / aptitude

a trio were trying to take a great crested grebe chick on the Moors just as we were leaving - the parents put up an impressive defence

Phil Andrews · May 31, 2015

Summary of Lapwing Broods

Brood F1 - hatched 4 young south of the second Flash on 17/05; not definitively seen since but regular adult activity in the area plus the appearance of 2 larger chicks in right of the reeds on 28/05 indicate they may have survived
Brood F2 - hatched 4 young on the right hand side of the sewage meadow on 19/02; reduced to 2 on 27/05 with both still present on 30/05
Brood F3 - hatched 1 young on the left hand side of the sewage meadow on 22/05; not seen subsequently
Brood F4 - hatched 4 young to the right of the hide near the delta from 24/05; reduced to 2 on 27/05 with 2 still present on 30/05
Brood F5 - hatched 4 young in from the main hide from 28/05; still 3 young on 29/05 and 30/05
Brood F6 - still sitting
Brood M1 - hatched 4 young in the Broadmeadow from 22/05; relocated to Amy's Marsh with only 1 young seen on 29/05 and 30/05

In total to date six pairs have produced 21 young of which at least 8 were still present as at 30/05, with a pair still to hatch

The only year I can find that has produced more young was 1996 when 22 young were hatched, of which 13 went on to fledge.

Phil Andrews · May 31, 2015

Richard Harbird had 4 Ringed Plover drop briefly into the Flashes on Friday morning (see blog for photo). Richard also indicates that the second pair of Oyks at the Moors does have young http://mortonbagotbirder.blogspot.co.uk/

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