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Grimley and Holt (6 Viewers)
- Thread starter Brian Stretch
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Sunday morning ,common sandpiper and kingfisher along the river, the latter very scarce for me this year with only 3 sighting, and they will probably have a poor year locally breeding along the Severn after the recent flooding topped the banks.
CLP’s a hobby catching dragonflies , large grass snake swimming across hippo pool and a coot beached a trout and pecked it 3 times before it managed to escape , incredible.
CLP’s a hobby catching dragonflies , large grass snake swimming across hippo pool and a coot beached a trout and pecked it 3 times before it managed to escape , incredible.
Tuesday evening black-tailed godwits had been reported at CLP but on arrival they had already left South.
Kingfisher and common sandpiper again along the river. Hobby seen in several locations. CLP’s South end drake pochard and three shovellor . 2 little egrets roosted and approx 300 starlings.
Kingfisher and common sandpiper again along the river. Hobby seen in several locations. CLP’s South end drake pochard and three shovellor . 2 little egrets roosted and approx 300 starlings.
Sunday morning Holt 7 green sandpiper and there may be more as you can not view the entire spit where they are feeding.
CLP a party of 5 green woodpeckers roadside. Well over 300 coot on the main pit and another brood of 3 tufted ducklings. 3 kestrels thermalising with 1 not moulting so probably this years youngster. Kingfisher briefly hippo pool . Ringlet, comma and small skipper new for the year and emperor dragonfly with lots of black-tailed skimmers.
Wagon Wheel redshank through S E.
CLP a party of 5 green woodpeckers roadside. Well over 300 coot on the main pit and another brood of 3 tufted ducklings. 3 kestrels thermalising with 1 not moulting so probably this years youngster. Kingfisher briefly hippo pool . Ringlet, comma and small skipper new for the year and emperor dragonfly with lots of black-tailed skimmers.
Wagon Wheel redshank through S E.
From Sunday not much to report from CLP , juvenile black headed gulls are starting to appear now ,with 3, probably from the Upton Warren colony. Lots of young fledged reed warblers feeding and good numbers of reed buntings East shore. Water levels have dropped 6 inches since the recent rains but ideally another 6 would be nice which might entice waders to stay a little longer as I managed to miss yet again the BT godwits.
The first gatekeepers were on the wing which is probably the last of the common butterflies to appear.
Holt, at least 9 green sand and C20 lapwing .
The first gatekeepers were on the wing which is probably the last of the common butterflies to appear.
Holt, at least 9 green sand and C20 lapwing .
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From Thursday evening 5 little egrets and 6 common terns ,hobby in dead oak west shore + reed warblers and lesser whitethroats in the beans.
Along the river 3 brown hare,fox, muntjac and a roe deer , the latter in the marrow / courgette field .
On returning latter to camp lane the 5 egrets had left but the hobby was hunting insects 9:45pm.
There must be close on 500 birds on the main pit not including the 300 coot on the west shore.
Along the river 3 brown hare,fox, muntjac and a roe deer , the latter in the marrow / courgette field .
On returning latter to camp lane the 5 egrets had left but the hobby was hunting insects 9:45pm.
There must be close on 500 birds on the main pit not including the 300 coot on the west shore.
luckyosprey4
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Spent 2 hours around Grimley earlier today with the following seen-
Camp Lane Pits-
4 Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 30 Cormorant, 20 Mute Swan, 70 Canada Goose, 30 Greylag Goose, 70 Mallard, 2 Gadwall, 46 Tufted Duck, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Little Grebe, 80 Coot, 15 Moorhen, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 42 Lapwing, 1 Green Sandpiper, 28 LB-B Gull, 40 B-H Gull and 1 Common Tern. There was great disturbance on Hippo Pool where a dog was running along the shoreline, which probably accounts for the limited number of waders.
Wagon Wheel Pits-
On arrival a gentleman informed us that a male Whinchat had been seen along the reeds and hedgerow and sure enough the bird was found, a fine-plumaged bird. Also here were 2 Mute Swan, 30 Canada Goose, 1 Mallard, 2 Tufted Duck, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 48 Lapwing and 1juvenile Common Tern.
On the return journey we stopped at Sling Pool, Holt, where the Wood Sandpiper was still present feeding alongside a few Green Sandpiper.
Butterflies were represented by Small White, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Red Admiral and Painted Lady, in addition there were Common Blue Damselfly, Black-Tailed Skimmer and Southern Hawker. Caterpillars of the Cinnabar Moth were found near the entrance to Camp Lane Pits on some ragwort.
Chris
Camp Lane Pits-
4 Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 30 Cormorant, 20 Mute Swan, 70 Canada Goose, 30 Greylag Goose, 70 Mallard, 2 Gadwall, 46 Tufted Duck, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Little Grebe, 80 Coot, 15 Moorhen, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 42 Lapwing, 1 Green Sandpiper, 28 LB-B Gull, 40 B-H Gull and 1 Common Tern. There was great disturbance on Hippo Pool where a dog was running along the shoreline, which probably accounts for the limited number of waders.
Wagon Wheel Pits-
On arrival a gentleman informed us that a male Whinchat had been seen along the reeds and hedgerow and sure enough the bird was found, a fine-plumaged bird. Also here were 2 Mute Swan, 30 Canada Goose, 1 Mallard, 2 Tufted Duck, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 48 Lapwing and 1juvenile Common Tern.
On the return journey we stopped at Sling Pool, Holt, where the Wood Sandpiper was still present feeding alongside a few Green Sandpiper.
Butterflies were represented by Small White, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Red Admiral and Painted Lady, in addition there were Common Blue Damselfly, Black-Tailed Skimmer and Southern Hawker. Caterpillars of the Cinnabar Moth were found near the entrance to Camp Lane Pits on some ragwort.
Chris
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CLP marsh harrier west shore 7:00am landed for 10 mins out of sight ,then flew west and lost to view . Wood sand piper sling which left north on a second visit 12:00. Nice to hear you found the whinchat from previous post picture to follow later (south wagon wheel reeds by field hawthorn).
Just a little more to add to this morning the Marsh harrier was a dark female cream head. A water rail was on the East shore but hard to see. 60 + lapwings a raven and 20+ lbb juv gulls. With the 3 new species for the year brings my total to 122 .
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Phil Andrews
It's only Rock and Roller but I like it
A moulting adult Grey Phalarope on Camp Lane Pits at 7:15pm but no further sign this evening as per Gavin Peplow.
