Upton Warren (14 Viewers)

[Phil Andrews]

Now 2 juv Med Gulls (both new birds) at the Flashes and Wood Sand still showing well.

 

[midlands birder]

Great hour or so down the flashes, 2 stunning juvenile Meds and an equally stunning juv Wood Sand. I'll let the others talk you through the day as I was only dropping in for a quick twitch.
Good craic in the hide, good to see you all again!
Worth the 40 min diversion!
MB

 

[Phil Andrews]

To round off a good evening JTB has just had a Barn Owl

 

[Gert Corfield]

A rubbish phone pic of the Wood Sand here;


https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildgert/14877369434/

 

[upstarts1979]

A rubbish phone pic of the Wood Sand here;


https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildgert/14877369434/

a cracker kid.B

 

[upstarts1979]

To round off a good evening JTB has just had a Barn Owl

I Was just telling Steve(spike) that sometimes stuff drops in late on, after he was talking about Barn owls, when unbelievably one flew over the meadow. It flew behind the oak tree up to the old orchard and off SE. All in all a great afternoon/nights birding. Also nice to see so many of the 'boys' around tonight.B

 

[Phil Andrews]

Sunday 10th August 3:30-8:45pm

Another great late afternoon and evening at Upton Warren on WeBS count day with good company and a nice selection of birds.

MOORS POOL
2 Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Cormorant, 2 adult + 6 juvenile Mute Swan, 4 Greylag Geese, 90 Canada Geese, 1 Teal (plus 10 on North Moors as per Paul C), c20 Tufted Duck, 140 Mallard, 138 Coot, 10 Moorhen, 4 LBB Gull, 1 Herring Gull, c75 BH Gull, Common Tern - 5 adults + 1 juvenile + 2 young, GC Grebe - 2 adults + 1 juvenile + 3 young, Little Grebe - 8 adults + 8 juveniles + 2 young, Kingfisher, Hobby over the Education Reserve, Raven regularly over (minimum of 5 birds), possible Spotted Flycatcher calling from the NW corner of the North Moors.
5 juvenile Ruff circled but didnt land early afternoon as per Jason Turner

SAILING POOL
51 Mallard, 11 Coot, 2 adult + 3 juvenile GC Grebe

FLASHES
Wood Sand feeding in the delta (another find by Jason Turner :t, 11 Green Sand, 4 Common Sand, 294 Lapwing, 3 adult + 9 young Avocet, 2 adult + 1 young Oystercatcher, 2 Snipe, 23 Curlew, 2 juvenile Shelduck, 26 Teal, 4 juvenile Shoveler, juvenile Little Grebe, 27 Coot, 18 Moorhen, 3 LBB Gull, c1000 BH Gull by 8:30pm, 21 Greylag Geese (including 1+ juvenile), 2 Raven over, juvenile Willow Warbler as per Dave W, 2 juvenile Med Gulls - 1 advanced bird with small metal leg ring, the other even more advanced (getting towards first winter) with a completely black bill and black legs, Barn Owl over fields east and south of the Flashes at approx 9pm.

With today's Ruff, Barn Owl and Wood Sandpiper, plus late news of a Common Gull briefly in the Flashes' roost on Monday night, the August total advances further to 94 species.

 

[upstarts1979]

pics from Today and Yesterday
1. all 3 sandpipers
2 and 3 wood sand
4. both Meds
5. record shot of male redstart

 

[Phil Andrews]

Adult summer plumage Sabine' Gull at Draycote Water this morning before heading off south-west. Yet another reason to keep an eye on the Flashes roost.

 

[Gert Corfield]

Flashes at present. One Swift over. One juv LRP, 4 Common Sand. 6 Green Sand probably more hiding. 23 Curlew.

 

[Phil Andrews]

Apparently the Wood Sand was still present at the Flashes this morning until 8am when it flew off

 

[upstarts1979]

Another great late afternoon and evening at Upton Warren on WeBS count day with good company and a nice selection of birds.

MOORS POOL
2 Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Cormorant, 2 adult + 6 juvenile Mute Swan, 4 Greylag Geese, 90 Canada Geese, 1 Teal (plus 10 on North Moors as per Paul C), c20 Tufted Duck, 140 Mallard, 138 Coot, 10 Moorhen, 4 LBB Gull, 1 Herring Gull, c75 BH Gull, Common Tern - 5 adults + 1 juvenile + 2 young, GC Grebe - 2 adults + 1 juvenile + 3 young, Little Grebe - 8 adults + 8 juveniles + 2 young, Kingfisher, Hobby over the Education Reserve, Raven regularly over (minimum of 5 birds), possible Spotted Flycatcher calling from the NW corner of the North Moors.
5 juvenile Ruff circled but didnt land early afternoon as per Jason Turner

SAILING POOL
51 Mallard, 11 Coot, 2 adult + 3 juvenile GC Grebe

FLASHES
Wood Sand feeding in the delta (another find by Jason Turner :t, 11 Green Sand, 4 Common Sand, 294 Lapwing, 3 adult + 9 young Avocet, 2 adult + 1 young Oystercatcher, 2 Snipe, 23 Curlew, 2 juvenile Shelduck, 26 Teal, 4 juvenile Shoveler, juvenile Little Grebe, 27 Coot, 18 Moorhen, 3 LBB Gull, c1000 BH Gull by 8:30pm, 21 Greylag Geese (including 1+ juvenile), 2 Raven over, juvenile Willow Warbler as per Dave W, 2 juvenile Med Gulls - 1 advanced bird with small metal leg ring, the other even more advanced (getting towards first winter) with a completely black bill and black legs, Barn Owl over fields east and south of the Flashes at approx 9pm.

With today's Ruff, Barn Owl and Wood Sandpiper, plus late news of a Common Gull briefly in the Flashes' roost on Monday night, the August total advances further to 94 species.

Only other thing Phil was that 3 common terns roosted (2 juvs + adult) at Flashes.

 

[jjs]

The Birds of Dorset

A heads-up for anyone in the Worcester area - The new St. Richards Hospice shop in St. Swithin's Street, Worcester has at least half a dozen new copies of the above Helm publication from 2004, at £3.69 - was £40 when originally published in 2004. It is a similar format to the familiar Birds of the West Midlands, and runs to 520 pages.

John

 

[Birder Gladys]

just some pics from the last 2 evenings

 

[Birder Gladys]

nothing to different tonight up to 20.30
3 Oystercatchers 5 common terns 6 Green sand 2 Common sand 450+ Lapwing 1 LRP 11 Avo's 22 Curlew ,and magpie on a cows head

 

[Phil Andrews]

nothing to different tonight up to 20.30
3 Oystercatchers 5 common terns 6 Green sand 2 Common sand 450+ Lapwing 1 LRP 11 Avo's 22 Curlew ,and magpie on a cows head

Easily the best Lapwing count of the year; hopefully something else like a Golden or Grey Plover will latch onto it.

 

[Birder Gladys]

Easily the best Lapwing count of the year; hopefully something else like a Golden or Grey Plover will latch onto it.

Very big sorry.mate ,long day meant 250+ lapwing

 

[upstarts1979]

Today at the Reserve:
Work party . 8 of us tackled a few tasks.
We continued removing Himalayan balsam from the Broadmeadow reed bed.
Trimmed the hedgerow along the road from A38 to Lifestyles. Taking care not to remove any berries.
Started opening up the two lookouts along the west track.

Moors: Little Egret, GCG 2 or 3 ads, 3 juvs + 3 chicks. Little grebe 12 min ads/juvs + 3 chicks NE corner, Shoveler 1, Tufted 20 chicks, Common Sand 2, common terns 3 ads + 3 juvs, large gulls 150, coot 140, water rail 4 very vocal birds ( 2 North Moors causeway and 2 Moors causeway. kestrel, buzzard 2, stock dove 2, collared dove 2, kingfisher, green woodpecker 2, great sp woodp, CUCKOO juv North Moors (begging calls heard and bird seen to fly in SE corner of plantation), Swift 2, sand martin 12, swllow 5, cettis 2 singing , reed warblers in reeds, blackcaps many and widespread 'chacking' in all the berry clad scrubland, chiffchaffs c10, goldcrest,

 

[upstarts1979]

FLASHES: till 6pm,
Little grebe juv, Shoveler 4, teal 30, shelduck juv, mallard 200, tufted fem + 4 chicks, Greylag 20,
Avocet 3 ads + 9 chicks, Lapwing c250, LRP juv, Snipe 2, Dunlin summer plumaged adult, Oystercatcher pr + juv (now bigger than adults, but still being fed by them), Green Sand 10, common sand 4 or 5, curlew 23,
common tern a bit of southerly passage during the storms this afternoon, involving small groups of 5: 3 and a juv dropped on to the Flashes with an adult later, thus 10 birds.
BHG c450, LBBG 5,
Raven 2, swallow, linnet 5,

 

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