Upton Warren (2 Viewers)

[wheatearlp]

Despite the lack of passage waders, if we can record Snipe, Med Gull, all the duck, Garden Warbler, Redpoll etc on Saturday we shouldnt finish last. I am expecting Middleton and Belvide to be in the mid 90s.

Kestrel and Peregrine would help too :-O

 

[wheatearlp]

Just had a look at this - have you got Siskin and Linnet the wrong way round Mike? Might be the first blank Spring All-Dayer for Common Sand at this rate :eek!:

Suspect you might be right there |=\|

I fix it tomorrow, file is on work lap-top.

 

[Phil Andrews]

Kestrel and Peregrine would help too :-O

Having looked at the BBC forecast for the next few days, whilst the winds remain light easterlies all the way to Saturday, the only significant rain is on Thursday. Hope it downs some waders that then hang around for another 48 hours. With Barwit, Whimbrel, Turnstone, Little Gull, Osprey etc reported elsewhere in the region there is stuff still moving somewhere out there.

 

[Ste-gull]

Cheers Ste - appreciated; we live in strange times :-C

Can you just confirm where and when you had the Coal Tit

Indeed we do!

Heard it from between lifestyles and the start of the track to the hide (really need to learn their names), the big'un on the moors? And it was at around 8pm.

 

[Claudy Banks]

Don't know whether this is significant or not, but there was a Kestrel at the flashes briefly yesterday evening 6:15.

 

[Stone Snapper]

Common sand just landed on moors in front of the sand martin box

 

[wheatearlp]

As Phil kindly pointed out my transposition on the check-list I posted yesterday, attached is a corrected list with Linnet & Siskin in the right place.

Cheers

 

[Martin S]

Lunch time at Upton Warren

 

[Martin S]

@ the flashes

 

[Martin S]

Just seen this at the flashes. ..
What is it?

 

[Stone Snapper]

Just seen this at the flashes. ..
What is it?

Common linnet -Carduelis cannabina Martin :t:

 

[Martin S]

Thanks, your photo is much better then mine.
Are you at upton on Friday. As I might pop down for a couple of hours

 

[StephenS]

Thought it may be of interest but I was in the concrete hide about 5.30pm on Easter Monday and a fox came out of the bushes by the bird table with a squirrel in its mouth. It ran across the front of the hide and dropped the squirrel by the water edge and cautiously came back out of the reed beds twice before having the courage to pick up the squirrel and disappear back into the reeds. I only mention as I have never seen a fox in that area of the reserve before and thought I would just point it out given that you have been checking the fox fences around the reserve

 

[Phil Andrews]

Thought it may be of interest but I was in the concrete hide about 5.30pm on Easter Monday and a fox came out of the bushes by the bird table with a squirrel in its mouth. It ran across the front of the hide and dropped the squirrel by the water edge and cautiously came back out of the reed beds twice before having the courage to pick up the squirrel and disappear back into the reeds. I only mention as I have never seen a fox in that area of the reserve before and thought I would just point it out given that you have been checking the fox fences around the reserve

Thanks for the heads-up Stephen. The fox fences around the reserve protect the main wader breeding areas - namely the second and third Flashes and the Amy's Marsh / Broadmeadow areas of the Moors Pool. The west side of the Moors Pool where the concrete / Water Rail hide is located is not protected by fox fencing, although it is always interesting to know where they roam. We just need to train them to eat rats ....

 

[UW82]

Today's highlight's:

MOORS:*
Avocet(2)----------------Common Sand
Lapwing (1)---------------Oystercatcher (4)
Pochard (f)---------------Gadwall (pr+m)
Tufted Duck (69)----------Shelduck (1)
Cormorant (1)-------------Whitethroat (2)
Willow Warbler (1)---------Cetti's Warbler
Herring Gull (6)------------Common Tern (5)

*There was no sign of Snipe or Teal in the seasonal pool area, which may have been due to disturbance by the "Newt survey" twosome. During the disturbance, only a bang on the hide from me prevented a Coot taking Avocet eggs.

FLASHES:

Avocet (28)---------------LRP (6)
Lapwing (2)---------------Curlew (1)
Oystercatcher (2)---------Shoveler (pr+m)
Gadwall (2m+pr)-----------Tufted Duck (6)
Shelduck (6)--------------Cuckoo
L Whitethroat-------------Common Tern (1) may have been one of five at the Moors.

SAILING POOL:

Cetti's Warbler------------Treecreeper
Tufted Duck (4)-----------L Whitethroat

+Roe Deer near N Moors car park.

Des.

 

[upstarts1979]

Don't know whether this is significant or not, but there was a Kestrel at the flashes briefly yesterday evening 6:15.

Very much so I have not seen one this year.:t:

 

[Phil Andrews]

April finished on 110 species; May should achieve a similar number. With the Year List currently on 126 the following may be added in the next month:

Garganey, Greenshank, Sanderling, Turnstone, Wood Sandpiper, Sandwich Tern, Little Gull, Little Owl, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Redstart, Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher

 

[upstarts1979]

Dave W and Dave J are on site at moment conditions look good. A stream of dunlin have risen to 9. So hopefully stuff like whimbrel and arctic tern will appear.

 

[Phil Andrews]

Dave W and Dave J are on site at moment conditions look good. A stream of dunlin have risen to 9. So hopefully stuff like whimbrel and arctic tern will appear.

Certainly the rain this afternoon and evening following several days of easterly winds looks very promising

 

[jtibbetts]

Along the Salwarpe track yesterday pm there were 7+ Beautiful Demoiselles, 4+ Banded Demoiselles (very early) and a Holly Blue- all Upton year firsts I believe? (Des?!)

Jared