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Early migrants (1 Viewer)

Seen around Geneva, already:-

Little Bunting, Little Crake, Savi's Warbler, (Aquatic Warbler, not by me!), Penduline Tit, Reed Warbler, Cuckoo, Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, plus many migrating waders (Stilt, Ruff, Wood Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, etc).

Mike
 
Swifts

Three Swifts just flew over Southampton. Also new in this week in and around Southampton:
Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler
Still waiting for Cuckoo.
David
 
Still waiting for Cuckoo.
David

One calling at Keyhaven last weekend.

Little Terns arrived now, also some signs of passage of Sandwich and Common Terns at Cut Bridge this morning, although just about everything else (which wasn't much) was going West!
 
First Common and Caspian Terns arrived this weekend, as did the local Red-necked Grebes. Now I'm waiting for the first Barn Swallows, Lesser White-fronted Geese, Little Gulls and Willow Warblers... shouldn't be long now! It's such an exciting time now, new migrants arriving almost daily... :)
 
Waders such as Spotted redshanks, Green sandpipers, Blacktailed godwits and Whimbrel all being reported as well - safe to assume they are failed breeders moving south?
Also a Red necked Phal (female) in Worcs is this a failed breeder or a female thats bred and left the male to raise the brood?

Gareth
 
Waders such as Spotted redshanks, Green sandpipers, Blacktailed godwits and Whimbrel all being reported as well - safe to assume they are failed breeders moving south?
Also a Red necked Phal (female) in Worcs is this a failed breeder or a female thats bred and left the male to raise the brood?

Gareth

I'd say that the majority of the waders moving back through now would be failed breeders. But the RN Phalarope turned up in exactly the same place same day last year so possibly a bird that is still on the way up to the breeding grounds?
 
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