Today's highlights:
FLASHES:
Green Sand-------------------LRP (4)
Avocet (51)-------------------Oystercatcher (2) + chick
Curlew (2)--------------------Lapwing (23)
Teal (9)-----------------------Gadwall (2)
Shelduck (2) + 7 young------Tufted brood of 5 on 3rd flash, only a few days old.
Raven (3)---------------------Rook (13)
L T Tit (12)--------------------Med Gull/B H Gull hybrid.
B H Gull 28D1- white ring on left leg. Has been seen at Upton before.
MOORS:
Lapwing (8) + chick-----------Common Tern (5) + 3:2 chicks
G C Grebe (3) + chick---------Shelduck (2)
Shoveler (2)-------------------Gadwall (1)
Oystercatcher (2), but no sign of chicks which were probably well hidden in thick vegetation.
Cetti's Warbler (2)
N MOORS:
Cetti's Warbler-----------------Whitethroat
SAILING POOL/ED RES.
Cetti's Warbler-----------------Greylags (2) + 3 young.
Des.
Today's highlights:
FLASHES:
Green Sand-------------------LRP (4)
Avocet (51)-------------------Oystercatcher (2) + chick
Curlew (2)--------------------Lapwing (23)
Teal (9)-----------------------Gadwall (2)
Shelduck (2) + 7 young------Tufted brood of 5 on 3rd flash, only a few days old.
Raven (3)---------------------Rook (13)
L T Tit (12)--------------------Med Gull/B H Gull hybrid.
B H Gull 28D1- white ring on left leg. Has been seen at Upton before.
Today's highlights:
FLASHES:
Green Sand-------------------LRP (4)
Avocet (51)-------------------Oystercatcher (2) + chick
Curlew (2)--------------------Lapwing (23)
Teal (9)-----------------------Gadwall (2)
Shelduck (2) + 7 young------Tufted brood of 5 on 3rd flash, only a few days old.
Raven (3)---------------------Rook (13)
L T Tit (12)--------------------Med Gull/B H Gull hybrid.
B H Gull 28D1- white ring on left leg. Has been seen at Upton before.
Hi Des - were any of the Raven potentially fledged young from the transmitter mast nest? I take it the Tufted brood was different to the one observed last week?
Hi Des - were any of the Raven potentially fledged young from the transmitter mast nest? I take it the Tufted brood was different to the one observed last week?
I saw 2 fully grown raven chicks in May and would have thought they would fledge. The tufted I saw Tuesday were the same as last Friday 19th June.
Do you think that have been two broods John? Wednesday's chicks looked very young.
Des.
A brief 75 minutes at the Moors this evening, the highlight of which was a female Shoveler with 8 ducklings that swam to the east island. Saw female Gadwall with three juvs, Mute Swam with two cygnets, one chick each of Lapwing and Oystercatcher and a juv GCG. Common terns were looking to nest on one the rafts, the two with chicks were still present although I only saw 1 & 2 chicks.
Black-headed Gull with white leg-ring “28D1” was originally ringed in the nest at Hosehill Berkshire on the 4th June 2011. It had previously been recorded at Upton Warren on the 5th May 2013 and at the Flashes on the 9th and 28th March 2014. It has also been noted back at Hosehill later in 2011 and on the River Lee, County Cork on the 1st January 2012. I will contact the ringing scheme to see if there is a further update.