Another day to squeeze in what little time I could on the birding front yesterday.
I spun a coin and heads came up for Conder Pool, I spun another and Cockersands came up heads, and spun again and Bank End came up....well there's a surprise!
Migrant Hawker. Pete Woodruff.
I'll deal first with the terrible photograph I took of the Migrant Hawker I saw at Cockersands. Butterflies noted were, 2 Red Admiral and a 'few' Small Tortoiseshell.
Greenshank Antonio Puigg
The big surprise at Cockersands was a Greenshank on Plover Scar which held little more than 260 waders at high tide with estimates of, 150 Oystercatcher, 50 Redshank, 45 Dunlin, 15 Turnstone, and 2 Ringed Plover. I saw at least 6 Wheatear difficult to be accurate with mobile birds back and forth. At Bank End at least 100 Pied Wagtail with a few obvious White Wagtail seen.
I moved no further than Conder Pool at Conder Green to note an increase in the number of 7 Little Grebe, a Great-crested Grebe, and a single Common Sandpiper.
Yesterday I saw two young Common Tern on Tern Island, one decidedly a bigger bird than it's sibling, and was the one fed by an adult with a fish on one occasion.
This is what I'm hoping to see soon at Conder Green, though not too sure about the smaller one, but I reckon the other will have fledged by this time next week.
Thanks to Antonio for the Greenshank, and to MJ for the Common Terns.
Common Tern. Martin Jump.
This is what I'm hoping to see soon at Conder Green, though not too sure about the smaller one, but I reckon the other will have fledged by this time next week.
Thanks to Antonio for the Greenshank, and to MJ for the Common Terns.
Not that bad a photo of the Mig.Hawker Pete, they are hard to get near to, let alone photograph!
ReplyDeleteHello Pete!
ReplyDeleteYour might judge your Migrant hawker is "a terrible photo" but I wold have been glad to take it!
Quite incredibly, I haven't seen any yet this season...
Cheers, keep well!