Upton Warren (2 Viewers)

[Gertatron]

Red legged partridge to path on the flashes this morning

 

[Phil Andrews]

Red legged partridge to path on the flashes this morning

First for the year Gert (species #96) :t: A summer migrant? 8-P

 

[UW82]

Mating Shelduck at the Moors: 9 in total across the reserve.

Des.

 

[UW82]

Today's highlights:

MOORS:
Shelduck (9)--------------------Shoveler (27)
Pochard (2)---------------------Gadwall (pr)
Tufted Duck (68)----------------Teal (4)
Lapwing (3)---------------------Snipe (5)
Oystercatcher (4)---------------Little Grebe (6)
G C Grebe (6)-------------------Herring Gull (6)
Cormorant (7)-------------------B H Gull (c160)
Greylag Goose (2)---------------Cetti's Warbler (1 eastside)
L Redpoll (7)--------------------L T Tit (4 pairs)
Kingfisher-----------------------Chiffchaff (3)
Sparrowhawk

FLASHES:
Avocet (20)---------------------Oystercatcher (2)
Curlew (11)---------------------Teal (12)
Tufted Duck (6)-----------------B H Gull (c400)
L B B Gull (2)--------------------Gadwall (4 males)
Coot (15)

ED RES-SAILING POOL:
Redwing (2)---------------------Tufted Duck (2)
G C Grebe (2)

Des.

 

[upstarts1979]

Forgot to add there were 4 Roe deer in the north fields at the Flashes yesterday.

Please don't forget there will disturbance at the Flashes tomorrow, due to installation of survey equipment.

 

[Gertatron]

4 Sand Martin through over Sailing Pool and 27 Avocet first thing

 

[Phil Andrews]

Latest year list addition

4 Sand Martin through over Sailing Pool and 27 Avocet first thing

97. Sand Martin

 

[Sy V]

96. Sand Martin

Excerpt from Giles Watson's (1968) "Hirundines"

"... Fringed by ragged robins
spanned by spiders’ webs,
and primeval equisetum,
sun-bleached lady’s smocks -
measured infinitessimally
by spindled skaters, tadpoles
and toadlets, writhing in clumps,
bug-eyed waterboatmen,
waterspiders with silvered bellies -
ponds mirror open sky,
where hirundines wheel,
and seem to swim, inverted,
under water.
But the hirundines
are not as they would have been:
devil’s birds, bills clapping
on swarms of insects undescribed,
gulping uncatalogued midges
like whales sifting krill. Let us
recreate them, while we can..."

 

[Brian Stretch]

Also 2 Sand Martins at the Moors Pool this morning (per TJN).

Surprisingly, given the mild spring so far, many migrants seem to be arriving later this year. For example, still no Wheatears reported in the county despite a few birds appearing further north.

Brian
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[Phil Andrews]

Excerpt from Giles Watson's (1968) "Hirundines"

"... Fringed by ragged robins
spanned by spiders’ webs,
and primeval equisetum,
sun-bleached lady’s smocks -
measured infinitessimally
by spindled skaters, tadpoles
and toadlets, writhing in clumps,
bug-eyed waterboatmen,
waterspiders with silvered bellies -
ponds mirror open sky,
where hirundines wheel,
and seem to swim, inverted,
under water.
But the hirundines
are not as they would have been:
devil’s birds, bills clapping
on swarms of insects undescribed,
gulping uncatalogued midges
like whales sifting krill. Let us
recreate them, while we can..."

Can we have some Pam Ayres please?

 

[Sy V]

When composing a poem and startin'
It's best not to mention an 'ouse martin
Cos' invariably you'll see that old stato will be...
there to quote dates for Sand Martin!

"Boom Boom!" (he says, in his best Basil Brush voice). Actually I'm amazed that I ignored the temptation to mention flatulence in that little offering!

 

[upstarts1979]

Update from Moors
sand martin 2 at 2,45 and 4 at 3,30. 29 avocet and 6 oycs.. Constant stream of herring gulls.

 

[upstarts1979]

Update
4.25 dunlin. Sand martin 12

 

[Phil Andrews]

Update
4.25 dunlin. Sand martin 12

What does four and a quarter Dunlin look like?

 

[Abbeybirder]

Half as many as 8.50 lol

 

[Paul Rhodes]

Update from Moors
sand martin 2 at 2,45 and 4 at 3,30. 29 avocet and 6 oycs.. Constant stream of herring gulls.

Hi John

Did the displaced avocets return to flashes at dusk

 

[upstarts1979]

What does four and a quarter Dunlin look like?

bigger than a normal one I think they call em curlews8-P

 

[upstarts1979]

Hi John

Did the displaced avocets return to flashes at dusk

All 29 counted in to roost:t:

 

[upstarts1979]

A few shots of the 'upton coastal saline lagoon' species.

 

[Phil Andrews]

A few shots of the 'upton coastal saline lagoon' species.

Is this a new challenge John, how many Avocets can you get in one shot? I count 20 in your third photo.