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Ian McKerchar


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A Great White Egret flew over east at 08:20 this morning.

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3 Whooper Swans present at 10:15 this morning.

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11.30-12.45 Lovely family walk around the lake, not really able to stop and study the bird life but still got some great views of the Black Tern which really must favour the orange buoy that Ive seen in other pics as that is where it was for a short time before taking flight and feeding. Other birds seen or heard included numerous Great Crested Grebe, 6 Willow Warbler, 5 Nuthatch, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Swallow, Grey Heron, Long-tailed Tit, Kestrel, Lesser and Great black backed gulls, Wren, Mute Swan and a Sandpiper- only briefly seen but either a Common or Green Im guessing.



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Black tern easily found as stated earlier today ,also great crested grebe 11+,robin,coal tit, nuthatch,song thrush,blackbird,wren,great tit,blue tit,mute swan ,lesser black backed gull, great black backed gull, coot,herring gull,sand martin ,swallow,mallard ,grey heron, woodpigeon.

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Couple of hours mid afternoon watching the Black Tern which refused to land so poor distant flight shots were all I could manage.

Seems to favour the area near the point where the fishermen are & is easily found with binoculars.



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The very early Black Tern was showing well this am when I popped up with Dave Broome. There's been some speculation that it might be the American race,but the underwing looked quite dusky to Dave and myself which apparently rules out the American race.

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6 Common Tern present this morning and a Peregrine over



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17 Dunlin flying around at 09:15 this morning, not seen to land.

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14 Common Scoter present this morning (12 males).

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Common Tern perched on a bouy this morning.

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A Little Egret at 14:25 just north of the Dam, on farmland by the blue-green barns, alongside the brook and visible from the A571

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paul brady wrote:

Another record for me .... 12 common tern (but still no marsh tern or arctic!)




Oh got so excited forgot the drake tufted duck in eclipse!

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Another record for me .... 12 common tern (but still no marsh tern or arctic!)

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A massive (record for me) 10 common terns on Sunday, sadly no marsh terns though :(

plus 3 common sandpipers, kingfisher and grey wagtail.

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I've noticed 6 common tern in the past week or so ... thinking of approaching the owners about some simple tern rafts?

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6 Common tern fishing over the Dam this evening

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5 Common tern, 12 Great crested grebe, and hundreds of hirundines from all three species were at the Dam this evening

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We had 4 common tern over the dam yesterday evening plus a single swift amongst scores of hirundines with sand martins being the most numerous.

In the overflow a couple of grey wagtails were present along with a single common sandpiper.

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A common tern was at the dam around 9:30 this morning. Also, lots of Great crested grebes nesting or displaying, as well as about 30 Sand martin and 50 Swallows soaring above the dam

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A Common Tern was present yesterday afternoon during the worst of the weather. Around 50 Sand Martins and 15 Swallows also present.

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3 common tern yesterday afternoon

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At least 20 great crested grebes on the dam, with some pairs going through their courtship rituals. Also a grey heron and 2 mute swans. The wooded section held a kestrel, 2 grey wagtail, coal tits, chaffinches, dunnocks, wrens and nuthatches amongst the commoner species
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5pm yesterday evening:

1 Grey Wagtail
2 Pied Wagtail
5 Mallard

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Cycling along the west side of the dam last night I flushed an Acro warbler - presumed reed warbler as it was very plain looking both above and below. Of course when I stopped to get my bins out it did a vanishing act!

Strange thing is that I've never seen one hear before - so not sure to tick! And there are no reeds ..... can I start an alternative species pondering session!!!

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60+ Pink-footed Goose east at 7:10am today.

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1xchiffchaff singing,3xshelduck

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Monday 12th of March 2012 08:26:49 PM

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