Phil Andrews
It's only Rock and Roller but I like it
Spotted Flycatcher at the Flashes in hedge to south of main hide at the and near dung heap plus 2 Lesser Whitethroat as per Andy P.
Does anyone know if the current Wood Sand is the original bird of late July?
From the Flashes this morning Andy P reports:
Wheatear for about 10 minutes, Redstart near the dung heap, Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper 5, Common Sandpiper 2, Curlew, Little Ringed Plover + chick, Avocet 17, Lapwing 90, Shelduck juvenile, Teal 14, Shoveler 3, Peregrine, Kingfisher.
From the Moors Pool Tim reports:
2 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 5 Cormorant, no sign so far of the Egyptian Geese family.
I did tweet the second wood sand could be sheltering from the bad weather last night .The first one did on its arrival last Tuesday. So here is a test for your memory is this multiple count of wood sand? enjoy your trip.:t:
As we start to approach the peak weeks for the return passage of waders through Upton Warren, I thought it was worth dusting off the stats for the maximum occurences for each species on the reserve; as you can see August dates are fairly prominent:
Oystercatcher - 14 - 20th July 2012
Black-winged Stilt - 1 - 21st to 22nd May 2006
Avocet - 24 - late June 2011
Little Ringed Plover - 31 - Late June 2002
Ringed Plover - 20 - 15th May 1994
Golden Plover - 150 - 25th February 1994
Grey Plover - 6 - 7th to 8th October 1991
Lapwing - 3,000 - February 1977, 31st July 1995, early February 1985, early 1994, late 1994, December 1995
Knot - 3 - 21st August 1965
Sanderling - 3 - 15th May 2006
Little Stint - 37 - 25th September 1996
Temminck’s Stint - 6 - 25th to 27th May 1975
Least Sandpiper - 1 - 13th to 15th August 1988
Pectoral Sandpiper - 2 - 15th September 2003
Curlew Sandpiper - 16 - 26th August 2000
Dunlin - 35 - 14th May 2007
Ruff - 16 - 2nd May 1994
Jack Snipe - 14 - 26th March 1967
Snipe - 200 - 28th March 1971
Woodcock - 2 - 1st March 1986
Black-tailed Godwit - 27 - 23rd August 2010
Bar-tailed Godwit - 23 - 30th April 2011
Whimbrel - 32 - 9th August 1992
Curlew - 122 - September 1988
Spotted Redshank - 7 - 26th August 1966
Redshank - 13 - 11th November 2006
Greenshank - 13 - 21st August 2000
Green Sandpiper - 31 - 19th August 2001
Wood Sandpiper - 6 - August to September 1965
Common Sandpiper - 18 - 25th August 1971
Turnstone - 8 - 2nd September 1988
Wilson’s Phalarope - 1 - 2 records
Red-necked Phalarope - 2 - 30th April 2011
Grey Phalarope - 1 - 4 records