wheatearlp
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Moors Pool maybe?
I wonder where the remaining three are?
Des.
I wonder where the remaining three are?
Des.
I had a quick visit to the Flashes this morning. Splendid work done by the Sunday crew. I am sure the birds will appreciate the changes at the water margins while birders will enjoy better sight-lines and the ingenious optical orientation system. Well done everyone.
12 Avocets were on view.
Peter
There were also 2 Shelduck, 1 Oystercatcher (in addition to those at the Moors Pool) and 5 Curlew at the Flashes this morning.
Over at the Moors Pool 2 Ravens flew over, 4 Oystercatchers were very vocal and the Cetti's Warbler with the red ring showed well in the reed bed to the south of the causeway. At least a dozen Snipe were seen on the Promontary (but no Jacks).
Hi Des.
I wonder if the reserve acts as a staging post. Our breeding birds arrive from their wintering grounds with their congeners, some of which latch on to our birds for a few days and then move off to their breeding sites. Others could be dropping in on route to elsewhere. With so many birds raised over the last 11 years, not all of them can stay and breed. Until we have identified individuals (such as ringed birds), we can only conjecture as to what is really happening.
Funny you should say that John, it would appear from my project on Avocets that the young don't show much of a tendency to return to the area they were raised to breed (Some do though), and it is actually the adults who have bred at a site that return.
That would suggest that it is young adult birds that have migrated with the breeding birds on site and have stayed on to breed!
MB
9 Avocet. 1 Shelduck. 4 Oycs on Moors.
Did the Wigeon look as though they could be dropping in at the Moors Pool Des? Is it likely that you had three pairs of Oystercatcher today?
Pic from the North Moors today.:t: