The Merlin was hunting waders around The Bight over the low high tide, with counts from the estuary including 144 Redshank, 118+ Common Gull, 57 Turnstone, 55 Bar and 40 Black-tailed Godwit, 23 Ringed Plover, 22 Greenshank, 21 Avocet, 16 Teal, five Red-breasted Merganser and a Great Northern Diver.
Elsewhere the Cetti's Warbler was in fine song today, maybe this year will see the first bird breeding territory, the first two Stock Dove of the year dropped into the saltmarsh with six Common Scoter and two Great Northern Diver offshore.
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Greenland Lake - both Dean Hall
Probably the most extensive flooding since the area was tidal. With the erosion from recent storms if we get another winter like this one it may be tidal again by next year. |
Year List addition:
107. Stock Dove
Other Wildlife: An increasing variety of invertebrates in the drier conditions including a Lesne's Earwig in the dunes, along with the ground spider Micaria micans and a Hedgehog Slug Arion intermedius, and more flies on the Alexanders.
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| Lesne's Earwig - Alan Keatley |
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| Micaria micans - Alan Keatley |
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| Hedgehog Slug Arion intermedius - Alan Keatley |
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| Phaonia tuguriorum - Alan Keatley |
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| Suillia variegata - Alan Keatley |
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