Keep On Running!

Common Sandpiper. Pete Woodruff.

This was the limit of my photographic skills with two of the 3 Common Sandpiper which had turned up at Conder Green on Wednesday with more to come yet, but I imagine they'll all have moved on by the end of the April. Conder Pool was quiet, but the pair of Gadwall were still there, with 2 Snipe, 12 Tufted Duck, 28 Mute Swan, and at least 150 sheep with lambs on here now....say n'more. A Greenshank was in the creeks, and on the circuit 2 Dunnock, a Wren, Great Tit, and Robin, but no migrants seen.

A couple of hours at Cockersands yielded 10 Wheatear with only my second Swallow over the fields heading north, these were the only migrants seen. About 6 Tree Sparrow were around Bank Houses with Dunnock, Robin, and a couple of Skylark in the air. 

To do my birding full justice I should have checked out Plover Scar, but the 'doggie brigade' beat me there and put paid to any such chance....truck! Off the scar I counted 8 Eider, the same 8 Wigeon winter left overs, and 2 Great-crested Grebe.

As far as I could see, amongst c.30 Mute Swan distant from Moss Lane, I saw just 2 Whooper Swan remaining here, and on the day I saw 5 Small Tortoiseshell.

Garden Birds. 

Siskin Warren Baker

A pair of Siskin have visited our garden feeders again twice recently. Thanks for the image Warren, appreciated.