Upton Warren (45 Viewers)

Update gone a bit misty and heavier rain. A bit of movement 75 house martin. 45 swift. A flock of 12 large waders in distance probable whimbrel. Meadow pipit on wires to north above crop. Everything is moving south. Now 17 green sand. Also swallow few. Sand martin 2.

Hobby over the flashes. Lots of passerines moving around

For all you fair weather birdets.....sun is now out and nice and warm8-P but no birds only joking.
Just walking back to the car when 24 cormorants flew over going south.

Live at Moors Pool - juv Med Gull + 4 Little Egret

100+ Greylags & Canadians in the field behind my house. Bloody noisy buggers!!!!!! :C :C :C :C

Phil Andrews said:

Live at Moors Pool - juv Med Gull + 4 Little Egret

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Any counts from the Moors today Phil
Dave J had 6 or 7 teal on the NM... an obvious influx of that species on the reserve, should give us hope for a garganeyB .

Saturday 2nd August 1545-2100

MOORS POOL
1 adult Oystercatcher, 4 Little Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Cormorant, 1 Teal, 8 Shoveler, 204 Mallard, 21 Tufted Duck, 20 Greylag Geese, 83 Canada Geese, 2 Mute Swans + 6 cygnets, 129 Coot, adult Water Rails in front of the concrete and West Hides, 11 Moorhen, Little Grebe - 9 adults + 8 juveniles + 5 chicks (1 juvenile Broadmeadow, 2 adults + 2 juveniles in south-west marsh, 1 adult + 2 chicks in south-west marsh, 2 juveniles on west side, 2 adults + 3 juveniles on west side, 2 adults + 3 chicks at north end), GC Grebe - 2 adults with 3 chick plus an accompanied juvenile, 4 LBB Gull, juvenile Med Gull, 145 BH Gull, 2 Herring Gull, Common Tern - 3 adults, 2 chicks and 2 fledged juveniles, 2 Ravens flew north-east, Swift, Kingfisher. BH Gull attempted to take a Moorhen chick off the East Island.

An interesting (even to Mr Binks ) report of a female of "the-duck-that-dare-not-speak-its-name" in the south west marsh in early July; no date in the log book but written between entries dated the 5th and 9th.

SAILING POOL
30 Mallard, 1 Canada Goose, 1 Moorhen, 7 Coot, GC Grebe - 2 adults + 3 juveniles

FLASHES
17 Green Sandpiper, 3 (possibly 4) Common Sandpiper, 1 Dunlin, 19 Curlew, Oystercatcher - 2 adults + 1 juvenile (can now fly), Avocet - 6 adults + 9 young, 10 Lapwing, 10 Snipe (7 in the rear "gulley", 3 in the delta), 8 Shoveler, c15 Teal,5 Shelduck, 95 Mallard, 23 Coot, 18 Moorhen, juvenile Little Grebe, 17 Greylag Geese over, juvenile Pied Wagtail, Sparrowhawk, c500 BH Gul by 9pm, juvenile Med Gull picked up at 8:50pm (looked a duskier bird than that observed at the Moors earlier although the light was considerably different), Little Egret over at 8:35pm (appeared to fly out of the rear of the sewage works rather than the Moors Pool so maybe a fifth bird?), female Tufted Duck with 2+ young on the third Flash.
I left Craig to hang on until darkness; I am sure he will report anything further of note.

A Greenshank reported earlier in the afternoon from the Flashes.

A ringed adult BH Gull - white 2K44 - was in the Flashes roost tonight; code sounds familiar so will trawl through my records.

A very impressive total of 75 species were noted across the reserve on Saturday.

The Black-headed Gull sporting the white leg ring with black code "2K44" on its right leg which was present in the roost tonight had previously been recorded at Upton Warren on the 27th July 2009, 5th August 2009, 16th July 2011 and 23rd July 2011. This bird originated from the Cotswold Water Park ringing scheme and further details of its movements have been requested.

Nothing further to add after you left Phil, very little arrived

Tailless Terence

1 adult and 1 juv oyc on pool island white headed canada x 2 little egrets moors

Dave J reports 2 Dunlin, 13 Green Sandpipers and 4 Common Sandpipers at the Flashes and 3 Little Egrets at the Moors Pool.

Late one today: 5pm till 9.40pm

MOORS:
Little Egret 2, GCG + at least 2 chicks on the back of female. Little grebe chicks in NE corner and plenty of calling, c10 adults and juvs along the west side.
With the surrounding crop fields now being harvested, there is a build up of waterfowl. At least 200 mallard, 120 canadas and 20 greylag roosted on the pool between at least feeding bouts - this number will increase over the coming weeks. Tufted c35 + 10 broods of young at least. Coot 140+, Lapwing 5, common tern 6 ads, 3 juvs + 2 chicks, unfortunately one of them has jumped out of its raft. Hopefully it will seek refuge on 'pool island'. A stream of large gulls were moving south, but only a few dropped on to the pool.
A few warblers called along the east track including - blackcap, reed warbler, cettis, and a few chiffchaffs.

FLASHES
A good gull roost of 950 - 1000 birds attracted 2 MED GULLS, 2 herring gulls and 4 LBBG managed to get through the 'protective Avocet shield'.
Little Grebe juv 1st Flash, Teal 19, shoveler 4, shelduck 6 juvs - in two groups of 4 and 2. mallard 130 with birds arriving as I was leaving.
Avocet 6 ads + 9 chicks, Oystercatcher pr + chick, LRP 3 ( 2 juvs and an adult - there were 3 juvs yesterday), dunlin ad + juv, Green sand 16, common sands 4, snipe 9, curlew 22, common tern 2 roosted. kingfisher,

Pleased to get such close views and grab a couple of record shots of one of the Little Egret's right in front the east hide this morning -

g.h.1 said:

Pleased to get such close views of one of the Little Egret's right in front the east hide this morning -

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nice shots Glen:t:

Cheers Vern, had a scan on your flickr site - success with the cattle Egret(s) yesterday I see.

upstarts1979 said:

FLASHES
A good gull roost of 950 - 1000 birds attracted 2 MED GULLS, 2 herring gulls and 4 LBBG managed to get through the 'protective Avocet shield'.
Little Grebe juv 1st Flash, Teal 19, shoveler 4, shelduck 6 juvs - in two groups of 4 and 2. mallard 130 with birds arriving as I was leaving.
Avocet 6 ads + 9 chicks, Oystercatcher pr + chick, LRP 3 ( 2 juvs and an adult - there were 3 juvs yesterday), dunlin ad + juv, Green sand 16, common sands 4, snipe 9, curlew 22, common tern 2 roosted. kingfisher,

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Were both Meds juveniles John?

Phil Andrews said:

Were both Meds juveniles John?

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Yes mate John R had already found the bird that has been around for a couple of weeks. The other bird was a darker more uniform one could have been the bird Craig had found. Although its ear coverts were darker. It might be worth asking Mike if the two he saw were these birds.

upstarts1979 said:

Yes mate John R had already found the bird that has been around for a couple of weeks. The other bird was a darker more uniform one could have been the bird Craig had found. Although its ear coverts were darker. It might be worth asking Mike if the two he saw were these birds.

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I tried to take a couple of shots of the ones I saw on Thursday - neither bird came out well.

One bird had a paler bill-base (brownish-red, or possibly reddish-brown ) and an obvious white tertial on the left side. The other was a little darker, seemed a little more bulky and had a wholly black bill.

wheatearlp said:

I tried to take a couple of shots of the ones I saw on Thursday - neither bird came out well.

One bird had a paler bill-base (brownish-red, or possibly reddish-brown ) and an obvious white tertial on the left side. The other was a little darker, seemed a little more bulky and had a wholly black bill.

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Saturday nights bird:


Sounds like the 2nd bird you describe Mike. the first you describe sounds like the bird first seen a couple of weeks ago, that 'white tertial' sounds familiar
MB