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This aft 15.00 till 17.00:

Ruff still present
Oystercatcher 1
Snipe 16
Green Sandpiper 1
Lapwing 104

Once again, this time at 15.30, all the waders were put up, possibly by a Merlin

At 17.00 the Ruff and Green Sandpiper were feeding together

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At the Dam around 1pm.
Cormorant ....1
Grey Heron....1
Grey Wagtail. ...1
Moorhen....1
Swallows....14 on wire.

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A Merlin flushed everything at 5:30pm this evening and a Green Sandpiper was present also.

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Other than the juvenile Ruff, also present today were 17 Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 137 Lapwing, a Hobby chasing Swallows at 10:25 and a Cockatiel being chased about by Magpies at 11:25am.

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This am 11.50 to 1.15 in Light Rain.
With thanks to Steve Almond for the text about the Ruff, and the finder Phil Rhodes.

Ruff....1 still present when I left; feeding in water just off SE shores.
Common Sandpiper...1
Common Snipe ....16 feeding just off east shore, plus a further flight of 10, that left over southern fields. Possible they circled back though but I doubt.
Lapwing....23
Teal....8
Gadwall....4
Linnet....5
Goldfinch....3
Grey Heron...1
Wheatear...1 imm/fem. It walked along the shore just under my position on the bank, by a bush
At least 12 Pied Wagtail
House Martin....4 or 5 in with the Swallows.

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Flying visit at 9.30am to try for the Sandwich Terns: but not seen since 8am (Phil Rhodes)

6 Mute Swans present on arrival and watch them fly off around 10am; good record for this site.
Green Sandpiper and Common Sandpiper feeding shoulder to shoulder on east shoreline.
4 Snipe feeding on south shoreline( 11 seen here this am by Phil.)

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Two adult Sandwich Terns present at 7:35 this morning.

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This morning:

 

Little Egret at 9:10 then flew towards the dam at 9:35

Whinchat behind the south reeds

2 Wheatear

Green Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper

7 Snipe

73 Lapwing

 

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This evening 4 to 6pm. Glorious weather.

Wheatear....1 fem or 1rst winter. Perched up on north Island on my arrival.
Tufted Duck....3
Cormorant....1
Gadwall...15
Grey Heron....1
Pied Wagtail...8+
Common Snipe....7
Common Sandpiper....1
Lapwing....4
Redstart....1 Brilliant repeat views at 30 yards. Perching in a small lone Willow bush by east shore c40 yards back from Fishermans Point.
The Redstart regularly dropping down onto the dry shore. 1rst winter male I think. Lovely coloured chest, grey head
with some supercilium showing.
Willow Warbler...1


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Also today at the Dam:

Kingfisher....1 first seen for a time at this end. Flew down the channel before veering into it's usual willows.
Grey Wagtail....1
Swallows....14, with 8 on wire at Bank Top farm.
Mallard....5

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Up to 11am this morning:

 

3 Wigeon

21 Gadwall

7 Teal

12 Snipe

Common Sandpiper

58 Lapwing

Wheatear

14 Linnet 

 

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Late morning today:

Green Sandpiper

Common Sandpipers

5 Snipe

 

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Stopping at the Dam at 12.25... two Buzzards were soaring close together, over the wood, before drifting slowly >NW.
Cormorant....1 ''on stump island''
Grey Heron....2
Grey Wagtail...1 in the outflow.

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This morning. Dam/Wood/Lock Lane:

Great Crested Grebe.....2
Grey Heron....1
Grey Wagtail...1
Swallows....c12
Nuthatch....1 maybe 2
Starlings....c440 including 240 packed on wire at Seddon Fold Farm. All moving in small groups >NW
Goldfinch....5. Lapwing .....14

-- Edited by keith mills on Monday 28th of August 2017 06:03:45 PM

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This morning:

 

4 Swift

Common Sandpiper

5 Snipe

Willow Tit

 

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Today up to 1pm. Dam/Wood/Lock Lane only:

Up to 30 Swallows, Some on wire at Bank Top Farm and others perched on the Gantry at the Dam or over the channel. Looked like many juveniles.
Cormorant.... single on mid-channel stump. First seen for a while.
Coot...1
Linnet....45 by Seddon Fold Farm.
Pied Wagtail....1


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This morning:

Common Sandpiper 1
Snipe 6
Kingfisher 1
Kestrel 1 female bathing
House Martin 25 hunting over the water
Swallow 50

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23 Swallows on wire at Lock Lane at 1.30 pm, when they were flushed by a Sparrowhawk.

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This morning:

Green Sandpiper 1
Common Sandpiper 2
Snipe 1
Lapwing 65
Teal 3
Gadwall 2
Linnet 2
Kestrel 1
Sparrowhawk 1
Swallow 100
House Martin 12
Swift 1

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12 to2pm today; sunny.

Common Snipe....2
Gadwall.....4 juveniles
Tufted Duck....3
Lapwing....27
Pied Wagtail....1
Swallow...2
Grey Heron....1
Greylag Goose....1 still with Canada's

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This morning:

Common Sandpiper 1
Snipe 5
Lapwing 26
Common Tern 1
Tufted Duck 14
Kestrel 1
Mixed hirundines 200+

No swift today


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This aft in the rain:

Common Sandpiper 2
Snipe 8
Lapwing 27
Linnet 2
Swallow 200+
Sand Martin 30
House Martin 15
Swift 2
Greylag Goose with 112 Canada geese

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This morning:

Common Sandpiper 1
Common Tern 1
Willow Tit 1
Swift 4


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This evening, up to 8.05. Sunny.

Redstart....2 including one male. I watched these two flitting about, often together, catching the low sun from the west.
Location was in a small clump of trees/hedge just to the right of the copse on the southern hill, and above and often on,
the tangle of fence posts ( at least12 posts very close together?) Viewed from footpath.
Buzzard....1
Kestrel...1
Common Sandpiper....1
Starlings...c50 flock.
Swallow....40+
Lapwing....18
Tufted Duck....7
Pied Wagtail...c12
Grey Heron....1
Gadwall present on arrival, but could not be relocated. Possibly due to low sun.

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Yesterday afternoon, Dam only.

At least some bird life back, if only
the usual.

Grey Wagtail....1
Grey Heron....1
Coot....1
Moorhen....1
Great Crested Grebe....1
Mallard....2
Woodpigeon.....4
Goldfinch ...2

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This morning:

Snipe 2
Common Sandpiper 1
Kingfisher 1
Common Tern 1
Sparrowhawk 1



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Just now, Approx 150 Jackdaw murmurating over the corner of Beaumont Rd and Wigan Rd and eventually settling in the trees at the bottom of Beaumont Chase. Fantastic noise and sight

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Male Redstart in the SW shore willows at 10am this morning.

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Late news for yesterday evening:

Juvenile Wheatear

Common Sandpiper

Kingfisher

Willow Tit

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Other sightings from today include:

 

adult Ringed Plover 

 

Common Sandpiper

3 Oystercatcher

adult Common Tern

Kingfisher 

 

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Also around noon yesterday:
Kestrel hunting between Broadgate Farm and Beaumont
Road.

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Today up to 10am:

 

2 Common Sandpiper

Kingfisher

 

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Highlights from today up to 11am:

 

female/juvenile Redstart in hawthorns behind the south reeds

Common Sandpiper

 

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Other sightings up to midday today included:

4 Willow Tit

Kingfisher

 

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This morning. Fine weather.

Nothing at the Dam; but Royal Albert were out in strength apparently doing a fishing survey.
The Wood
Nuthatch....3 including 1 juvenile
Coal Tit.....1 or 2

Lock Lane
Kestrel on wire
Linnets....11 (5 on wire)
Grey Heron....1 by hedge.

Lodge
Quick scope only from the top:
Common Sandpiper....1
Lapwing...17
Tufted Duck....1 ''scaupfaced'' fem.


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Today up to 11:50 am:

 

2 Redstart female/juvs in hawthorns behind the southern reeds

2 Common Sandpiper

Snipe

Willow Tit 

 

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This evening up to 8.45pm.

Redstart...1 male
Little Ringed Plover....1 juvenile.
Common Sandpiper....1
Reed bunting...1 female
Lapwing....1
Goldfinch....5 or 6
Tufted Duck....5 female.
Grey Heron....1

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3 Snipe, a Little Ringed Plover and a Common Sandpiper present today.

 

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Today up to 1.45pm. Weather fine.

Nothing at all at the Dam, today.

Kestrel..1 ...Lock Lane; hunting fields towards the Lodge.
Lapwing....11
House Sparrows......juvenile 10+
Swallows... c20 including 1 juvenile at the farm.
Pied Wagtail....10 mainly juveniles.
Common Sandpiper....1
Lesser black-backed Gull...1 adult
Tufted Duck....3 female, with the white bill bases
Grey Herons....2
Great Crested Grebe....3
Canada Goose....74

-- Edited by keith mills on Saturday 5th of August 2017 08:39:27 PM

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Turnstone flew in at 09:53this morning and landed on the Fishermans point on the east shore briefly, then flew off NW.

 

Also present were 5 Little Ringed Plover and 4 Common Sandpiper. 

 

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At the Dam this am:

Grey Wagtail....1
Grey Heron.....1 juvenile
Great Crested Grebe....1

Plus late post for last Tuesday (session aborted by thunderstorm)
Little Ringed Plover....3
Linnets....3 on shore.
Lapwing....10

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Today:

4 Common Sandpiper

4 Little Ringed Plover 

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Up to 11am today:

 

5 Little Ringed Plover

2 Common Sandpiper

20 Lapwing

2 Swift

2 juvenile Willow Tit 

 

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Up to midday today:

 

Juvenile Redstart in the west shore willows

4 Little Ringed Plover

4Common Sandpiper

2 juvenile Willow Tit 

 

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This pm up to 3.15. Fine and breezy.

Lapwing ...16 ( 14 flying and 2 settled on the SW shore.)
Little Ringed Plover....1
Common Sandpiper.... 4
Oystercatcher....1
Kingfisher....1
Greenfinch...1f
Reed Bunting...2 ..m and f
Tufted Duck... 3 female all showing 'scauplike' white bill base.
Juvenile Pied Wagtails......8+ 1 male adult.
Grey Heron....1
Good to meet up with Dave Broome; he had earlier seen the Juvenile Redstart, in and around the large round
clump of willows on the SE shoreline. Dave also heard a Willow Tit.

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Today:

 

Juvenile Redstart still along the SW shore Willows at midday

2 juvenile Little Ringed Plover

2 Common Sandpiper 

 

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Sightings from today include:

Juvenile Redstart on the SW shore Willows

Juvenile Sedge Warbler

3 juvenile Willow Tit

5 Common Sandpiper

5 Little Ringed Plover

 

Info thanks to Phil Rhodes, Simon Johnson and Simon Warford 



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This morning around 10am. Dam and wood only.

Grey Wagtail...1 adult
Nuthatch....2 or 3 juveniles.
Swifts.....8 passing
Swallows....12+
Canada Goose....6
Great Crested Grebe....3
Coot....2
Goldfinch...2 Later thanks to text from Steve Almond and with Phil Rhodes.... Juv/fem Redstart....1 probably juvenile, low in south shore Willows.

-- Edited by keith mills on Saturday 29th of July 2017 07:35:36 PM

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This morning:

 

3 Little ringed Plover

Common Sandpiper

 

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Up to midday today:

 

3 Curlew

Dunlin (different individual from yesterday)

5Little Ringed Plover

3 Common Sandpiper

 

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