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A day off today and a time to catch up with UW matters. I don't know how to feel about the lapwing chicks. So many potentials but so many lost. Grateful with the ones that have made it so far and these are more than I've seen on many RSPB reserves.
All the best to everyone. Miss you loads!

Hi Gazza. Yes very sad but everyone is a bonus..Lapwing sustainability is 0.8chicks/pair. As they are long lived they only need to raise 4 chicks from 5 pairs. Fingers crossed. Hope you are well mate. Cu soon
 
Hi Gazza. Yes very sad but everyone is a bonus..Lapwing sustainability is 0.8chicks/pair. As they are long lived they only need to raise 4 chicks from 5 pairs. Fingers crossed. Hope you are well mate. Cu soon

I went up to the Moors on Friday at about 1.40pm in the small hide watching the birds on the feeders then this landed on the roof a male sparrowhawk lovely bird I did take some photos of it but I don't know how to put them on here lol but they are on Facebook

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Just had a text off Bill B. A large lapwing chick is feeding in transmitter field behind hide. Hopefully 1 of the 2 seen Friday. Also 4 LRP & 2 Curlew. Otherwise quiet.
 
absences makes the heart grow fonder,and all the hard work pays off,Had 42 birds in 2 hours did look for the Med Gull at moors and flashes with no luck.
 

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...Lapwing sustainability is 0.8chicks/pair. As they are long lived they only need to raise 4 chicks from 5 pairs. Fingers crossed...

On the strength of John's figures here, I took a look at the BTO data which supports this, although they don't quote an "Official Lifespan" (generally understood to be 4-5 years) they do state that maximum age of the longest recorded surviving bird was 21 years 1 month and 15 days.
There are more facts and figures here: http://blx1.bto.org/birdfacts/results/bob4930.htm. Perhaps the most poignant of which is their conservation status "[Birds of Conservation Concern Listing] Conservation Status: RED because Recent Breeding Population Decline (1981-2007), [Eaton, M.A. et al. 2009. British Birds 102:296-341]. Previous Assessments: 2002-2007 AMBER [Gregory, R.D. et al. 2002. British Birds 95:410-448] 1996-2001 AMBER [Gibbons, D.W. et al. 1996. RSPB Conservation Review 10:7-18].
 
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Tuesday work party

Tomorrow will be a work free zone. Unless cake eating is work. Just birding and socialising in the hides with a rumoured lemon drizzle cake for company.
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Lovely morning. 35 species in just under three hours. The highlight was seeing two little ringed plover chicks in the cage at the Flashes. Oystercatcher chick in front of sewage works. At the Moors saw a water rail. Also a little grebe chick in The Hook area. Gadwall still has six ducklings.
 
Lovely morning. 35 species in just under three hours. The highlight was seeing two little ringed plover chicks in the cage at the Flashes. Oystercatcher chick in front of sewage works. At the Moors saw a water rail. Also a little grebe chick in The Hook area. Gadwall still has six ducklings.

Thanks Janette - positive news re a second LRP brood and the continued survival of the Gadwall family
 
At the halfway point of the month, June's list limps to a typically poor-for-this-time-of-year 81 species . Possible additions include (year ticks in bold):

Little Egret, Peregrine, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Common Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Barn Owl, Tawny Owl, Little Owl, Grey Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Redstart, Garden Warbler, Goldcrest, Treecreeper, Nuthatch, Yellowhammer
 
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Lapwing Breeding Update

Brood F1 - hatched 4 young south of the second Flash on 17/05; 2 young still present on 12/06 but often our of view at rear of second flash reed-bed
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 but only 1 from early June onwards
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 and none by 09/06
Brood F5 - hatched 4 young in from the main hide from 28/05; reduced to 3 young on 29/05 with 3 still present on 09/06 but none by 10/09
Brood F6 - hatched 4 young in front of main hide on 05/06; all lost by 09/06
Brood M1 - hatched 4 young in the Broadmeadow from 22/05; relocated to Amy's Marsh with only 1 young seen from 29/05 onwards

Current total is 4 young surviving from 25 hatched in 7 broods; to ease reference I have colour-coded the broods "red" for total failure and "green" for at least 1 chick still surviving. Whilst the survival rate is very poor, looking on the positive side the successfully fledging of the remaining 4 chicks would equal the output for the last 5 years combined
 
update from Moors. influx of common tern 10 in total. A few swifts and swallow moving through but otherwise quiet. on the breeding front gadwall 6 chicks. little grebe 8 ads +1 chick. . GCG +1 chick. lapwing 3 ads +1 chick. Oystercatcher 4 ads +3 chicks.
also shoveler 2 males. shelduck 2, tufted 63, greylag 2, coot 60,
reed warbler 5 in the hook actively finding food in the hedgerows.

picture = little grebe chick on the back of its parent
 

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update Flashes.
tufted 1st brood of 6 on 3rd Flash. LRP 2 chicks 2 days old. no sign of lapwing or oystercatcher chick at moment. only movement 2 Teal and 3 curlew.
 
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LRP chick at 3 days old.

Final tally for Flashes:
Teal 7 (5m + 2F), shoveler pr, shelduck 3 ads +8 very large chicks, gadwall 3, mallard 8 broods 2 fresh ones today, tufted c20 + brood of 6 on 3rd Flash.
Avocet 50 (28 + 22 juvs). lapwing 18 no chicks seen, but the 2 large chicks of last Friday should be OK. LRP 5 + 2 chicks, Oystercatcher 3 ads no chick seen, but parent is in long grass and hopefully the chick is close by. Curlew 3 in long grass in meadow. BHG c500 the Moors colony has been annihilated by the large gulls and most have now moved to the Flashes.
Kestrel, sparrowhawk, buzzard, stock dove 12,
lots of passerine activity mostly involving reed warbler and reed buntings foraging, a sedge warbler sang to south of main hide - few and far between this year. Also linnet 6, goldfinch 8, pied wag.
 

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