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JOHN TYMON


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I had a wood sandpiper briefly on Houghton Green pool this afternoon. It came in from the south calling, circled the pool ,then landed briefly before being chased off by the Resident Green Sandpiper . It flew off north at 14.30 . 1 green sandpiper and common sandpiper also present along with 70 mallard but no greenshank.


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Two visits today, this morning:

Greenshank 1

Green sandpiper 1

Common sandpiper 1

Teal 8

Cormorant 5

Grey partridge 8

Black-headed gull 115

 

More or less identical this afternoon except that the green and common sandpipers were missing and there were two adult lesser black back gulls with the black-headed gulls.

 



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Houghton Green pool -still don't know why people call it a flash

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Greenshank-1
Green Sandpiper-1
Common Sandpiper-1
Teal-8
Cormorant - 4
Buzzard-2

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Greenshank and two green sandpipers at 7:30am and still present when I left, but apparently all gone by 9:00am. This is now a regular pattern by the green sandpipers, they often seem to be present early morning only. The greenshank (assuming that it is the same bird which has been at the site for nearly 3 weeks), went missing yesterday as well, so perhaps it's going to wherever the green sandpipers go. It will be interesting to see if they're all present and correct tomorrow morning.



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No sign of Greenshank today -too much disturbance must have moved it on along with the Green Sandpiper
only things of note was 2 Yellow Wagtail

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JOHN TYMON wrote:

im getting double spacing again on my threads not sure why ? :(




Your settings were set to use the advanced editor John, which uses double spacing. I've now changed it for you but if it happens again just go into your settings and click it to off smile

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Greenshank -1

Swallow -c500

House Martin -c50

Yellow Wagtail -2 Juv

im getting double spacing again on my threads not sure why ? :(



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Greenshank-1
Ruff-1
Teal -4
Cormorant- 4
Long tailed Tit-21
Blackcap-1
Reed Bunting-17
Meadow Pipit-15
Willow Warbler-10
Chiffchaff-2
Grey Heron -1
Kestrel-1
Yellow Wagtail-2
Pied Wagtail-10
Swallow-500+> S
Sand Martin- 200+
House Martin - 100+


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Greenshank-1 (longist stay at the pool I know of for this species-10 days)
Ruff - 1 again the longest I remember Ruff at the pool ,assuming its the same one,but strangely todays looked bigger than yesterdays,so not sure if we are getting a passage of ruff or the different weather conditions are making the same bird look different.
Mallard-55 (none yesterday,so they have arrived overnight )
Teal- 2
Swallow -500+
House Martin -150+
Sand Martin-200+
Willow Warbler-2
Grey Heron - 1
Grey Partridge-5


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Greenshank-1
Green Sandpiper-2
Ruff- 1 Juvenile -different bird to last week ,likely a female on size
Sparrowhawk-2
House Martin-6
Swallow -20
Grey Partridge- 2
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7:15am - 8am today:

3 green sandpipers

1 greenshank

1 ruff

1 yellow wagtail



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John, I think we were there at the same time as you, up by the conifers

We missed the cormorants, got the Greenshank & Ruff, but can add:

1+ White Wagtail (N shore)
1+ Pied Wagtail
2+ Yellow Wagtails touched down briefly on N shore, then flew off high S in flock of ~15 Wagtails sp (but probably all Yellow Wagtails)

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Greenshank-1
Ruff-1 Juvenile Male -these are quite a rarity at the pool ,so was nice to see
Tufted Duck-2
Cormorant-4
Swallow-30+
Sand Martin -10 +


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Greenshank still present today for the third day in a row

Common Sandpiper-1



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This evening;

Yellow wagtail 3 males

Common Sandpiper 1

Little ringed plover 2

 



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A quick visit on my way to work this morning:

 

Dunlin 1

Common sandpiper 1

Little ringed plover 2

Yellow wagtail 2 (male and female - the first female yellow wagtail I've seen this year).

Gadwall 1

 



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This evening:

White wagtail 1

Gadwall 3

Tufted duck 2

Little grebe 1



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Nice sunny morning visit, 7.30 - 8.15am

Yellow Wagtail 1m
White Wagtail 2
Little Grede
Shoveler 3
Gadwall 2
Buzzard

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This evening;

Little ringed plover 2

Yellow wagtail 1 male

White wagtail 2

Gadwall 4 (2 pairs)

Little grebe 2



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Yellow Wagtail - 2 Male( Flew off NW High just before I left at 2pm
White Wagtail- 2 Male
Pied Wagtail-7...
Grey Wagtail -1 Pair
Willow Warbler-1
Shelduck- 1 Pair
Little Grebe - 1 Pair
Lapwing -12
Chiffchaff-1
Gadwall -1 Pair



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Yellow wagtail 2 (4 yesterday) all males

Little ringed plover 1

White wagtail 1

Shoveler 2 (pair)

Gadwall 4 (2 pair)



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Yellow wagtail 1 stunning male
White wagtail 1
Little ringed plover 3
Swallow 1
Shoveler 2 (male and female)
Grey wagtail 2
Little grebe 1
Wigeon 1 female
Willow warbler 1 singing

 



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Willow Warbler - 1 a stunning new arrival in brilliant nick
Lttle Ringed Plover- 2
Shoveler - 7 - 
Gadwall- 2 pair
Little Grebe-2
Common Buzzards 2 in talon tumbling display flight
Swallow- 5
House Martin -1 -chased off by the swallows
Sand Martin-10
Wigeon-1
Teal-4
Tufted Duck-2
Reed Bunting-4
chiffchaff -4
Mallard - 8



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Little Ringed Plover - 2
Widgeon-1
Shoveler-4
Chiffchaff-1
Mallard-4
Gadwall-3
Teal -4
Little Grebe-2
Swallow - 10
Sand Martin- 10
Rooks - at least 36 occupied nests by the pool
Pied Wagtail-8
Common Buzzard-1



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Early evening:

Little ringed plover 1
Goldeneye 2 (male and female)
Teal 3
Gadwall 1 pair
Wigeon 8
Tufted duck 4
Little grebe 1

 



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Shoveler - 2 pair
Goldeneye- 1 Female
Gadwall- 1 pair
Teal - 1 pair
Little Grebe- 1
Wigeon-8
Mallard-4
Grey Partridge-4
Pied Wagtail-6
Common Buzzard-1

 



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No sign of the little ringed plover late afternoon, but there was a female goldeneye.



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Little Ringed Plover 1, Was hoping overnight rain would of added to the tally
Pied Wagtail 3
Shoveler 4
Gadwall 2
Wigeon 4

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First little ringed plover of the year at the flash this afternoon, also 2 gadwall (male & female), 6 wigeon, 1 little grebe and 4 grey partridge.



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40 Wigeon this afternoon



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With the recent rains partially re-flooding the flash the walk around it produced an interesting array of birds among the mix of riparian and rank vegetation.

Wigeon 36

Mallard 12

Lapwing 30

Oystercatcher 2

Black Headed Gulls 50

Kestrel male

Grey Partridge 2

Magpie 16

Mistle Thrush 2

Song Thrush 9 (7 feeding on the ground & 2 singing from nearby trees)

Pied Wagtail 11

Goldfinch 30

along with a few of the usual's.



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I called in at the Flash today on my way home to see if the winters heavy rain has had much of an affect, and indeed it has. Water levels are considerably up compared to late summer when I was last there, the main problem now is that there is very little muddy shoreline for waders because the tall vegetation is flooded. Still not a lot on the water, I saw just three species, 42 wigeon, 20+ mallard and a couple of coots, but at least it's looking like it might be worth a look occasionally.



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Called in this afternoon ,the puddle left is about 20 feet across,and contained no birds. If you consider it used to be half a mile to walk round the pool ,you can see its gone now as a real wetland bird site :(

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Ringed plover 1
Little ringed plover 4
Little grebe 1 adult
Yellow wagtail 2 juveniles
Lapwing 10

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Little ringed plover 4
Little grebe 1
Lapwing 10
Yellow wagtail 1

Not much left of the "flash" now. It's at least a metre lower than it was in the spring. It might just survive the summer and perhaps get a reprise with winter rains, but it could just as easily disappear by the end of August. One thing I can guarentee, water extraction will stop soon.......

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Two male yellow wagtails today but not much else.

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Two yellow wagtails and two grey partridge this morning, no sign of sanderling or any other waders of note.

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3 sanderling this morning at 5:30am and still present at 19.00 also 2 yellow wagtails.



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Ringed plover and oystercatcher present this evening. That's 9 species of wader for me at this site in the past couple of months but mainly all singles of each.

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8.45-9.15ish

2 Yellow Wagtail (Flava) males
Lapwing with two young


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Very quiet at the moment, a single redshank and yellow wagtail the highlights, plus the usuals. Still, over the past few weeks black-tailed godwit, redshank, dunlin and green sandpiper have all managed to stay more than a day despite the constant disturbance, so maybe a Temminck's stint or curlew sandpiper will be next??

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A single dunlin was the highlight this evening.

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Thanks John. Complicated things these races of yellow wagtail. I did see two channel wagtails last year and they were much brighter than this, but then again they were both males. Females are a nightmare!

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colin davies wrote:

Possible female blue-headed wagtail at the flash this evening (photos on my blog), male yellow wagtail and single redshank.



It looks like one of the channel wagtails you get now and again see Ians Article on the main site ,The pool has had visits before of Channel wagtails over the last few years.

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Possible female blue-headed wagtail at the flash this evening (photos on my blog), male yellow wagtail and single redshank.

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Singles of Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Yellow Wagtail and Pied Wagtail today.

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Hobby again this evening, also 2 dunlin, 1 redshank, 1 common sandpiper and a yellow wagtail

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Hobby again over the flash this evening, also shelduck, common sandpiper, redshank and 2 yellow wagtails.



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An awesome hobby flew through chasing swallows at high speed late afternoon. Also 2 common sandpipers and a redshank, but no sign of the blue-headed wagtail, just a single yellow wagtail.



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A cracking blue-headed wagtail with at least two male yellow wagtails this evening. Rubbish photos on my blog "Birds to Bryophytes". Also a couple of redshanks.



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