The 'white ring' is actually a metal BTO ring. Another adult yesterday was also colour-ringed.
John Williams said
Thu Jul 26 11:13 PM, 2012
I also could'nt resist a viewing of the RNG tonight, pity the light was quite bad 7.45ish. Originally thought I'd leave it until tomorrow but with a change in the weather
forecast overnight, it's going to get quite windy apparently, the grebe may have opted to move on. It'll probably hang around for weeks now after my mad dash earlier.
Those Scoters did'nt hang around for long the other week though did they?.
The Red Neck seemed very content in the company of Great Cresties though, as it drifted off towards the centre of the flash with them.
I also caught a glimpse of the Kingfisher, flying flat out across the flash.
Nice to bump into Andy Makin again too.
-- Edited by John Williams on Thursday 26th of July 2012 11:13:58 PM
-- Edited by John Williams on Thursday 26th of July 2012 11:14:42 PM
Tony Coatsworth said
Thu Jul 26 11:08 PM, 2012
One Common Tern had yellow over white rings on right leg
colin moran said
Thu Jul 26 10:10 PM, 2012
Red Necked Grebe still present 1500 hrs
cheers Colin
Ian McKerchar said
Thu Jul 26 4:19 PM, 2012
Breeding plumaged adult Red-necked Grebe at Pennington Flash 09:10 this morning, just off the spit.
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Keith Mills said
Thu Jul 26 11:32 AM, 2012
10.30 to 10.50 this morning: Red-necked Grebe still cruising off the spit, sometimes with 7 Great Crested Grebes,including one Juvenile. County life tick for me. Two Common Terns on spit.
-- Edited by keith mills on Thursday 26th of July 2012 03:17:37 PM
Ian McKerchar said
Mon Jul 23 10:36 PM, 2012
2 Green Sandpipers still present mid-afternoon from Ramsdale's Hide.
Info thanks to Ian Peters
Paul A Brown said
Mon Jul 23 6:41 PM, 2012
2 Green Sandpiper on ramsdale's
Ian McKerchar said
Mon Jul 23 2:30 PM, 2012
No sign of the Spotted Redshank this morning.
Info thanks to Barry Hulme
Ian McKerchar said
Mon Jul 23 6:06 AM, 2012
Juvenile Spotted Redshank still present at 8pm. Also a single Dunlin.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Ian McKerchar said
Mon Jul 23 12:36 AM, 2012
Juvenile Spotted Redshank still present on the spit at 5:35.
Info thanks to Mark Rigby
Ian McKerchar said
Sun Jul 22 10:29 PM, 2012
Juvenile Spotted Redshank currently present on the left hand side of the spit, viewed from Horrocks Hide.
JOHN TYMON said
Sun Jul 22 3:44 PM, 2012
Ian McKerchar wrote:
Juvenile Spotted Redshank currently present on the left hand side of the spit, viewed from Horrocks Hide.
The spotted redshank has been present since 11.30 but dissapeared behind the long vegatation until 2pm when it started to walk down left side of spit. I was only 99% sure of it being a spotted redshank as me and charlie only had bins,so I let Ian know who duly abliged and came down and confirmed the sighting-beltin bird for July at the flash and a fitting end to my hols :) And just proves that even when it was the busiest day of the year at the flash-Iron man event and thousands of people on the flash,that the birds can still turn up. :)
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Sunday 22nd of July 2012 03:58:14 PM
JOHN TYMON said
Sun Jul 22 2:12 AM, 2012
Not a lot this aft of note due in the main to the activity on the water in preparation for the iron man event tomorrow. Only things of real note were Lapwing -c150 flew up off the point about 12pm,when we thought there was about 10,as you can see very little of the point at the moment due to tall weeds. Tufted Duck -good number in rammies-150+ Great Crested Grebe-30 Reed warbler-still quite a few singing.
Ian McKerchar said
Sat Jul 21 4:25 PM, 2012
4 Black-tailed Godwits present this morning and 2 Common Tern.
2 Redshank, 2 Common Sandpiper and 61 Tufted Duck this morning
John Williams said
Wed Jul 18 9:56 PM, 2012
09.30-11.30
1 Common Tern, 1 Med. Gull plus the usual birds. No sign of Scoters.
4 Meadow Brown, 1 Common Blue & 1 Small Skipper butterflies.
Woodpigeons and Magpies monopolising feeding station, even the
squirrels seem intimidated, although 4 Bullfinches, 1 Willow Tit and a handful
Chaffinches managed to grab some tucker.
Ian McKerchar said
Wed Jul 18 1:51 AM, 2012
Common Sandpiper also present at 3pm.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
JOHN TYMON said
Tue Jul 17 11:22 PM, 2012
Paul A Brown wrote:
6 common scoter still present at 1150
and up to 15.00 at the front of the boat clubs
Paul A Brown said
Tue Jul 17 6:53 PM, 2012
6 common scoter still present at 1150
Ian McKerchar said
Tue Jul 17 3:24 PM, 2012
6 Common Scoter (5 males, 1 female) present this morning.
Into thanks to Barry Hulme
JOHN TYMON said
Mon Jul 16 6:03 PM, 2012
a few possitive signs of breeding this afternoon A Gadwall with 2 young a female Shelduck with 3 large young,possibly from Lightshaw family parties of Willow tit,Long tailed tit,Chiffchaff,Blue tit,Great tit. 2 Common Sandpiper 2 Oystercatcher.
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Monday 16th of July 2012 06:27:09 PM
Ian McKerchar said
Mon Jul 16 6:54 AM, 2012
3 Common Sandpipers present at 3pm.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
JOHN TYMON said
Mon Jul 16 2:11 AM, 2012
Only thing of real note today was A Female Pintail at the front of rammies hide,possibly the burger van pintail of earlier in the year.
Ian McKerchar said
Sat Jul 14 8:11 PM, 2012
7 Redshank and 2 Common Terns present this morning.
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Ian McKerchar said
Fri Jul 13 5:38 AM, 2012
12 Black-tailed Godwits east over the main car park around 8am this morning.
A little later a further single Black-tailed Godwit and 3 Common Terns also present.
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Nick Isherwood said
Wed Jul 11 12:34 AM, 2012
A quick visit this afternoon for an hour or so.
Very high water levels and an overgrown spit lead to not much being on view from Horrocks hide. Only notable birds were:
4 Dunlin flew through at 4.30. 1 Kingfisher 1 male Teal in eclipse. 2 Reed Warbler singing near to Tom Edmonson hide. 1 Chiffchaff 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker near Rammies. Large numbers of Coots, probably in excess of 150. Several Blackcaps singing too.
Also a dead Mute Swan across from Ramsdales hide. I reported it to Ian but he was already aware of it.
Neil McCall said
Tue Jul 10 9:33 PM, 2012
Nick Isherwood wrote:
Made the mistake of visiting the flash late this afternoon and ended up getting caught up in the Duke of Gloucesters visit.
Had a quick ten minutes in Horrocks hide but I was politely asked to vacate due the Duke wanting a look. On my way up to Ramsdales hide I was treated to nearly being run over by his security teams as well. Other than that though the park was quite quiet.
Bird wise it was fairly quiet too.
3 possibly 4 Common Terns. 3 Very vocal and active Oystercatchers. Good numbers of Blackcaps singing plus two singing Chiffchaffs too.
Huh. We were sharing a hide at the Asa Wright centre in Trinidad a couple of years ago with the Spanish Royal Family - we didn't get chucked out and one of them even borrowed my wife's bins.
Ian McKerchar said
Tue Jul 10 3:48 AM, 2012
A Cuckoo flew north over the East Bay Hide shortly after 1pm today.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Ian McKerchar said
Tue Jul 10 3:47 AM, 2012
This morning:
4 Common Sandpipers on the 'goalposts' by the spit. 12 Curlew flew over west
Info thanks to Barry Hulme
JOHN TYMON said
Sat Jul 7 11:33 PM, 2012
Not much to report at penny today apart from sunshine A kingfisher,and everywhere well flooded. Also a beltin scoping point for rammies in the form of a seating platformon the top of the canal above rammies,that, as long as it doasn't get burned down,or vandalised will be crackin for doing the flash int winter
Nick Isherwood said
Fri Jul 6 1:09 AM, 2012
Made the mistake of visiting the flash late this afternoon and ended up getting caught up in the Duke of Gloucesters visit.
Had a quick ten minutes in Horrocks hide but I was politely asked to vacate due the Duke wanting a look. On my way up to Ramsdales hide I was treated to nearly being run over by his security teams as well. Other than that though the park was quite quiet.
Bird wise it was fairly quiet too.
3 possibly 4 Common Terns. 3 Very vocal and active Oystercatchers. Good numbers of Blackcaps singing plus two singing Chiffchaffs too.
Ian McKerchar said
Thu Jul 5 11:52 PM, 2012
Ringed Plover also present this early afternoon.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Ian McKerchar said
Thu Jul 5 11:51 PM, 2012
Today:
2 Black-tailed Godwit 3 Common Term 2 Kingfisher Oystercatcher
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Ian McKerchar said
Tue Jul 3 5:54 AM, 2012
Late news for yesterday, when 2 adult Mediterranean Gulls were on the flash around 2pm, heading off south-west at 2:33pm.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Ian McKerchar said
Mon Jul 2 10:51 PM, 2012
Two Common Sandpipers present this morning and one still present this evening.
Info thanks to Barry Hulme and Phil Rhodes
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Monday 2nd of July 2012 10:52:10 PM
JOHN TYMON said
Sun Jul 1 10:30 PM, 2012
PM mooch wi Charlie Owen of Note today Black tailed Godwit-17 came in at 1.30 circled the point and left in direction unknown as they were unsighted to us,but most likely SE. Kinfisher-1 Male
JOHN TYMON said
Sun Jul 1 4:43 AM, 2012
PM mooch wi Charlie Owen only real things of note Sparrowhawk-1 Common Buzzard-1 Kingfisher-1 common Tern-2 Little grebe -1
Mark Rigby said
Sun Jul 1 4:08 AM, 2012
JOHN TYMON wrote:
The flash like a lot of places is having one of its poorest years in memory,water levels and poor weather add that to lower numbers of the warblers etc,and the shame is most other places are having a bad time also :( A bit of good news regarding the water levels and weather-several moorland sites to the east of the county have had a good breeding season. In the past, birds have nested on the water margins after a dry spring, only to get washed out when the water levels rise after prolonged rain. This year, as the water levels have been to capacity before the birds nested, most have bred successfully. The only victim, a pair of Great Crested Grebes who built a nest and had layed 2 eggs got washed out due to the winds whipping up waves which did for the nest!
Nick Isherwood said
Sun Jul 1 3:19 AM, 2012
JOHN TYMON wrote:
Nick Isherwood wrote:
JOHN TYMON wrote:
Geoff Walton wrote:
Fir 10-30 to 2pm
We managed 4 Oystercatchers on the spit, and a Little Grebe at Teal Hide. Never seen so much water and so few water birds. Guess you regulars know more than we southerners, as we only saw one other birder
The flash like a lot of places is having one of its poorest years in memory,water levels and poor weather add that to lower numbers of the warblers etc,and the shame is most other places are having a bad time also :(
On top of this, as the flash is having a poor year less birders end up visiting and so there's less chance of any good birds being spotted. It becomes a vicious cycle.
Im still there on my days off ,and ive seen hardly owt all year
You're obviously a die hard John. Good on yer!!
JOHN TYMON said
Sun Jul 1 2:28 AM, 2012
Nick Isherwood wrote:
JOHN TYMON wrote:
Geoff Walton wrote:
Fir 10-30 to 2pm
We managed 4 Oystercatchers on the spit, and a Little Grebe at Teal Hide. Never seen so much water and so few water birds. Guess you regulars know more than we southerners, as we only saw one other birder
The flash like a lot of places is having one of its poorest years in memory,water levels and poor weather add that to lower numbers of the warblers etc,and the shame is most other places are having a bad time also :(
On top of this, as the flash is having a poor year less birders end up visiting and so there's less chance of any good birds being spotted. It becomes a vicious cycle.
Im still there on my days off ,and ive seen hardly owt all year
Nick Isherwood said
Sun Jul 1 1:11 AM, 2012
JOHN TYMON wrote:
Geoff Walton wrote:
Fir 10-30 to 2pm
We managed 4 Oystercatchers on the spit, and a Little Grebe at Teal Hide. Never seen so much water and so few water birds. Guess you regulars know more than we southerners, as we only saw one other birder
The flash like a lot of places is having one of its poorest years in memory,water levels and poor weather add that to lower numbers of the warblers etc,and the shame is most other places are having a bad time also :(
On top of this, as the flash is having a poor year less birders end up visiting and so there's less chance of any good birds being spotted. It becomes a vicious cycle.
JOHN TYMON said
Sun Jul 1 12:25 AM, 2012
Geoff Walton wrote:
Fir 10-30 to 2pm
We managed 4 Oystercatchers on the spit, and a Little Grebe at Teal Hide. Never seen so much water and so few water birds. Guess you regulars know more than we southerners, as we only saw one other birder
The flash like a lot of places is having one of its poorest years in memory,water levels and poor weather add that to lower numbers of the warblers etc,and the shame is most other places are having a bad time also :(
Geoff Walton said
Sat Jun 30 11:59 PM, 2012
Fir 10-30 to 2pm
We managed 4 Oystercatchers on the spit, and a Little Grebe at Teal Hide. Never seen so much water and so few water birds. Guess you regulars know more than we southerners, as we only saw one other birder
Ian McKerchar said
Fri Jun 29 11:50 PM, 2012
9 Greylags, 2 Oystercatchers and an adult Peregrine were the highlights of today's afternoon visit.
Jon Taverner said
Thu Jun 28 10:30 PM, 2012
Egyptian Goose back on the Flash again - on the rocks by the Burger Van.
Bernard McGurrin said
Wed Jun 27 12:06 AM, 2012
Black swan showing well just behind burger van at 1-00pm, over near yacht club when i was leaving about 4-00pm,. Muscovy duck on car park
Jon Taverner said
Tue Jun 26 3:16 PM, 2012
Egyptian Goose flew North East at 7.40am having stood at the edge of the Flash calling for 10 minutes. Black Swan presently near Yacht Club.
Ian McKerchar said
Mon Jun 25 9:16 AM, 2012
First summer Mediterranean Gull present this morning, along with 2 Common Terns.
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Monday 25th of June 2012 11:09:51 AM
forecast overnight, it's going to get quite windy apparently, the grebe may have opted to move on. It'll probably hang around for weeks now after my mad dash earlier.
Those Scoters did'nt hang around for long the other week though did they?.
The Red Neck seemed very content in the company of Great Cresties though, as it drifted off towards the centre of the flash with them.
I also caught a glimpse of the Kingfisher, flying flat out across the flash.
Nice to bump into Andy Makin again too.
-- Edited by John Williams on Thursday 26th of July 2012 11:13:58 PM
-- Edited by John Williams on Thursday 26th of July 2012 11:14:42 PM
cheers
Colin
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Red-necked Grebe still cruising off the spit, sometimes with 7 Great Crested Grebes,including one Juvenile.
County life tick for me.
Two Common Terns on spit.
-- Edited by keith mills on Thursday 26th of July 2012 03:17:37 PM
Info thanks to Ian Peters
Info thanks to Barry Hulme
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Info thanks to Mark Rigby
The spotted redshank has been present since 11.30 but dissapeared behind the long vegatation until 2pm when it started to walk down left side of spit. I was only 99% sure of it being a spotted redshank as me and charlie only had bins,so I let Ian know who duly abliged and came down and confirmed the sighting-beltin bird for July at the flash and a fitting end to my hols :)
And just proves that even when it was the busiest day of the year at the flash-Iron man event and thousands of people on the flash,that the birds can still turn up. :)
-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Sunday 22nd of July 2012 03:58:14 PM
Only things of real note were
Lapwing -c150 flew up off the point about 12pm,when we thought there was about 10,as you can see very little of the point at the moment due to tall weeds.
Tufted Duck -good number in rammies-150+
Great Crested Grebe-30
Reed warbler-still quite a few singing.
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
6 Black-tailed Godwit
1 Dunlin
2 Oystercatcher
1 Curlew
2 Common Sandpiper
Info thanks to Barry Hulme and Bill Harrison
1 Common Tern, 1 Med. Gull plus the usual birds. No sign of Scoters.
4 Meadow Brown, 1 Common Blue & 1 Small Skipper butterflies.
Woodpigeons and Magpies monopolising feeding station, even the
squirrels seem intimidated, although 4 Bullfinches, 1 Willow Tit and a handful
Chaffinches managed to grab some tucker.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
and up to 15.00 at the front of the boat clubs
Into thanks to Barry Hulme
A Gadwall with 2 young
a female Shelduck with 3 large young,possibly from Lightshaw
family parties of Willow tit,Long tailed tit,Chiffchaff,Blue tit,Great tit.
2 Common Sandpiper
2 Oystercatcher.
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Monday 16th of July 2012 06:27:09 PM
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
A little later a further single Black-tailed Godwit and 3 Common Terns also present.
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Very high water levels and an overgrown spit lead to not much being on view from Horrocks hide. Only notable birds were:
4 Dunlin flew through at 4.30.
1 Kingfisher
1 male Teal in eclipse.
2 Reed Warbler singing near to Tom Edmonson hide.
1 Chiffchaff
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker near Rammies.
Large numbers of Coots, probably in excess of 150.
Several Blackcaps singing too.
Also a dead Mute Swan across from Ramsdales hide. I reported it to Ian but he was already aware of it.
Huh. We were sharing a hide at the Asa Wright centre in Trinidad a couple of years ago with the Spanish Royal Family - we didn't get chucked out and one of them even borrowed my wife's bins.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
4 Common Sandpipers on the 'goalposts' by the spit.
12 Curlew flew over west
Info thanks to Barry Hulme
Also a beltin scoping point for rammies in the form of a seating platformon the top of the canal above rammies,that, as long as it doasn't get burned down,or vandalised will be crackin for doing the flash int winter
Had a quick ten minutes in Horrocks hide but I was politely asked to vacate due the Duke wanting a look. On my way up to Ramsdales hide I was treated to nearly being run over by his security teams as well. Other than that though the park was quite quiet.
Bird wise it was fairly quiet too.
3 possibly 4 Common Terns.
3 Very vocal and active Oystercatchers.
Good numbers of Blackcaps singing plus two singing Chiffchaffs too.
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
2 Black-tailed Godwit
3 Common Term
2 Kingfisher
Oystercatcher
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
Info thanks to Phil Rhodes
Info thanks to Barry Hulme and Phil Rhodes
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Monday 2nd of July 2012 10:52:10 PM
of Note today
Kinfisher-1 Male
only real things of note
Sparrowhawk-1
Common Buzzard-1
Kingfisher-1
common Tern-2
Little grebe -1
The flash like a lot of places is having one of its poorest years in memory,water levels and poor weather add that to lower numbers of the warblers etc,and the shame is most other places are having a bad time also :(
A bit of good news regarding the water levels and weather-several moorland sites to the east of the county have had a good breeding season. In the past, birds have nested on the water margins after a dry spring, only to get washed out when the water levels rise after prolonged rain. This year, as the water levels have been to capacity before the birds nested, most have bred successfully. The only victim, a pair of Great Crested Grebes who built a nest and had layed 2 eggs got washed out due to the winds whipping up waves which did for the nest!
You're obviously a die hard John. Good on yer!!
On top of this, as the flash is having a poor year less birders end up visiting and so there's less chance of any good birds being spotted. It becomes a vicious cycle.
The flash like a lot of places is having one of its poorest years in memory,water levels and poor weather add that to lower numbers of the warblers etc,and the shame is most other places are having a bad time also :(
We managed 4 Oystercatchers on the spit, and a Little Grebe at Teal Hide. Never seen so much water and so few water birds. Guess you regulars know more than we southerners, as we only saw one other birder
Info thanks to Bill Harrison
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Monday 25th of June 2012 11:09:51 AM