Another increase in Ringed Plover numbers with 958 counted over the evening tide, the second highest count for the reserve after 1037 in August 1983. One of the new arrivals was a striking leucistic adult. Dunlin counts were hampered when two Sparrowhawk settled around the Bight, but numbers remained similar to recent days with 34 Sanderling, five Knot, five Bar-tailed Godwit, four Turnstone and three Grey Plover also present.
Over 800 Common Tern were present on the morning tide along with single juvenile Black and Little Tern. With most Common Tern feeding up river in the evening, 'just' 200 were present in the evening but they were joined by an adult and juvenile Roseate Tern.
Also in the estuary 246 Redshank, six Greenshank, five Mediterranean Gull and four Teal, with nine Balearic Shearwater, three Arctic Skua and a Great Crested Grebe offshore and three Wheatear the best of the passerine migrants.
Ringing News: The majority of the ringed terns today showed a continuingly easterly bias to recoveries. Common Tern came from Holland (four) and Poland (two) with Sandwich Tern from Belgium, Denmark and Holland.
Both Roseate Tern were also ringed, the juvenile came from Coquet Island, Northumberland but the adult was from an Irish colony, with the juvenile Little Tern also from Ireland.
Other recoveries included the 100th returning Exe ringed Oystercatcher for the winter and P:87B, the Portland ringed Great Black-backed Gull, back for it's 11th winter, first recorded here in October 2015.
No comments:
Post a Comment