A female Redstart around Dead Dolphin Wood was a welcome record for this increasingly scarce migrant, the first here since Aug 2023 and just the third since Sep 2021. Other migrants included 10 Willow Warbler and four Blackcap with 24 Swallow, four Sand and two House Martin, two Siskin and a Buzzard heading east along with single figures of Meadow Pipit, Chaffinch and Goldfinch.
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| Redstart - Lee Collins |
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| Robin - Dave Jewell |
Counts from the estuary included 57 Dunlin, 31 Bar-tailed Godwit, 13 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 13 Teal, eight Turnstone, six Sanderling, four Red-breasted Merganser, three Ringed and a Grey Plover, three Greenshank and a 2cy Mediterranean Gull.
Elsewhere 17 Sandwich Tern, 11 Common Scoter, five Great Northern Diver (four south) and three Eider offshore with a Reed Bunting and a Water Rail at the Main Pond.
Year list addition:
122. Redstart
Other Wildlife: Fewer flying insects in the cooling wind with just Peacock and Speckled Wood butterflies noted. The conditions were however ideal for Sand Crocus, with a single Fritillary in flower in Greenland Lake.
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