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JOHN TYMON


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Am of note

Common Tern - Pair hawking round then off NW at 11am no feeding or display today, they obviously know they have no chance with Heron on one side and 2 Cormorant sat on the other side. No further sign up to me moving.

Wheatear - 1 F Greenland type

Hobby - 1 over high NE

Sparrowhawk - 1 Pair 

Plus the usual everyday stuff .



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From this afternoon & despite a motor bike racing around paths

Common Tern - 2, with in 2 days of same date as last year, with male making several return trips with fish in beak

Lesser black-backed Gulls - 12, 2 adults & 10 immatures

Mute Swan - 2, first birds here since April 2023

Gadwall - pair

Swift - 7, overhead, the most I've seen together so far this spring!

Green Sandpiper - 1, up off middle pool & out east

Sparrowhawk - 1, soaring very high but still being harassed by crow



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As predicted the other day the farmer was Ploughing the flood field as I left hopefully the Lapwing young moved off to another area 

of note 9-1

Common Tern - A pair have taken up residency on the raft on the west pool displaying and chasing other birds off ,which is an unusual sight in the last few years but unlikely to breed as its mainly a hollow raft.I normally see a few through at this time of year but not passing fish , which the male seemed to travel across to partridge lakes to collect , it was coming back with decent size Rudd. we can only hope and  see if they hang about. pic below 

Mute Swan - 1 Pair on West pool (see pic below) The Female Common Tern has a ring 

Cuckoo one that sounded like it had a sore throat on the Northern edge railway line 

Coot - First brood of 7 hatched on the entrance pool , always nice to see

 

plus all the usual stuff

 






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There's always something of interest on SLP general wildlife but from pm yesterday, highlights were:

Arctic Tern - 2, hawking around west pool before heading out NW. A first for the reserve.

Wheatear - Greenland female on ploughed fields

House Martin & Swallows - a few more of each noted than on previous visits, but still way less than usual!

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Last 2 days nothing of great note apart from 7 singing Sedge Warbler ,pools almost birdless apart from 2 Great Crested Grebe ,a few Tufted Duck Little Grebe. Floods in fields rapidly drying up ,so expect the farmer to plough them soon ,as he was spraying the fields today so forget any insect life on those from now on . Pretty dour really for the time of year .

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1st May AM Pretty quiet relatively

Of note

2 Ringed Plover

2 Redshank

2 Female Greenland type Wheatear

Plus the usuals.

All regular Summer Breeders now present in good number on the site 

Too much disturbance from the groups of pro Dogwalkers that swarm the area everyday.



-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Thursday 2nd of May 2024 07:07:01 AM

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Of note for me this morning 

Redshank - 2 not a common site here

Ringed Plover - 2 

Wheatear - 4 all Greenland types ( 2 in pic attached)

Swift - 4

Plus the usual 



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Friday 26th 9.30 -1 full site covered 

A bit of of wader fest in silver Lane terms as normally waders are few and far between, the motorway service

Station build not started fully yet, but imminent, means a decent area ,Is at the moment fallow, and disturbance low ,apart from pro dog walkers straying on there. 

Also flooded field is preventing the other farmer from ploughing the Eastern Arable at the moment.

 

Previous days Cuckoo seems to have moved on , no sign today

 Whimbrel- 3 flying NE at 12.00

Ringed Plover - 1 pair(pic of one below, rare on site)

Oystercatcher- 1 Pair

Redshank - 1

Lapwing - 2 pairs with young, and 2 pairs on eggs.

Yellow Wagtail - 1 disturbed by entrance pool flew south

Yellowhammer- 12 feeding on mss area

Corn Bunting - 2

Skylark - at least 6 pairs feeding young , more nesting but on the site again that will soon be lost to a Solar Panel farm :( 

Sedge Warbler - 3 singing

Marsh Harrier - 1 female through NE

Wary note for anyone on west side of summit ,There is a Tree pipit lookalike with short hind Claws that's a meadow pipit. 

Plus the usuals 

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A frosty start, but started to warm fairly quickly.

Garden Warbler - 2, first of year

Sedge Warbler - 2,

Reed Warbler - 3

Grasshopper Warbler - 1

Willow Warbler - 23

Blackcap - 6

Whitethroat -6, numbers well down on previous year

Willow Tit - 1

Lesser Redpoll - 1

Mistle Thrush - 2

Shelduck - 2,

Cormorant -2

Grey Heron - 2

Great crested Grebe - 2

Canada Goose - 3,



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A Male Cuckoo arrived in Heavy rain on eastern side then flew North when rain stopped. My first of year .(pic on my flickr site)

2 Sedge Warbler (Pic of one below )

Redshank on eastern arable

Yellowhammer - 14

Corn Bunting - 2

Sand Martin - c100

Swallow - 20+





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Back on the patch after a week away in Spain, to be greeted with a cold wind to remind me where I am!

Great crested Grebe - 2

Cormorant - 3, up off & flew south

Canada Geese - 2, regularly flying in/out of the area

Buzzard - 5,

Swift - 2, high overhead & first record for year

Grasshopper Warbler - 2

Reed Warbler - 3

Blackcap - 3

Chiffchaff - 11

Willow Warbler - 20

Common Whitethroat - 6

Willow Tit - 1

Lesser Redpoll - 1

Reed Bunting - 5

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Thursday 18th

2 Greenland Type Male Wheatear present on the eastern side, same date as the last 2 years .

plenty of the regular Summer Warblers now , Blackcaps, Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, Reed Warbler and Grasshopper Warbler in decent numbers 

Hundreds of House Martin and Sand Martin with lower numbers of Swallow 

Still 7 Yellowhammer , 20 Linnet, 2 Corn Bunting

1 Pair of Willow Tit

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Of note this morning 

Redstart - Male briefly in South Valley

Yellow Wagtail - 1 Male over East

Whitethroat - 6

House Martin - 150+ over West pool

Sand Martin - 100+

Swallow - 20

Willow Tit- 1 pair in suitable habitat to breed.pic below



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Late post Thurs 11.04.2024

Wheatear - 1 Female (pic below)

Reed Warbler - 1 in brief song

Whitethroat- 1

Yellowhammer- 4

Blackcap - 2

 

Yellow Wagtail - 1 Male flew east after a few mins on eastern arable

Lots of chiffchaff and decent amount of Willow Warbler. Plus the regulars .

 

 



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From this morning

Whitethroat - 1

Grasshopper Warbler - 1

Blackcap - 6

Chiffchaff - 15

Willow Warbler - 27

Great crested Grebe - 3

Pochard - 5

Greylag Goose - 2, yesterday

Gadwall- 7

Grey Heron - 2

Oystercatcher - 2


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Despite the damp morning a fair amount of activity noted.

Marsh Harrier - 2, female initially hunting over east field then out west, followed 10' later by immature male drifting south

Kestrel - 2

Oystercatcher - 3, pair on east fields, single on west pool raft

Pochard - 3, 2m/1f

Stock Dove - 4

Meadow Pipit - 3 pair around site

Chiffchaff - 19

Willow Warbler - 20

Blackcap - 3, 1 male singing near J11 with 2 females together near west pool

House Martin - 6, high overhead feeding

Reed Bunting - 5, singing males

Yellowhammer - 2, males

Bullfinch - 2 pair around site






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today AM

3 Corn Bunting (picture of one below)

7 Yellowhammer 

and as I was watching the Corn Bunting a probable Male Hobby, a really small one headed NE towards LWM(9.45) ,only saw it for a few seconds . 

 

apart from that the usual fair 

 



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Highlights from yesterday afternoon.

Yellow-legged Gull - adult with several lesser black back gulls on west pool & then flew out south

Lesser black backed Gull - 42, 6 on west pool, 36 on local farmland

Oystercatcher - 2, on flooded east fields

Yellowhammer - 3, down east side

Corn Bunting - 2, down east side with YH

Kestrel - pair on summit


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Highlights from this morning were:

Willow Warbler - 9

Chiffchaff - 20

Blackcap - 2

House Martin - 16, feeding high as they flew north

Swallow - 1, among them

Goldfinch - 25

Cormorant - 3


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From this morning

Pochard - 14, lots of activity competing for the attention of 3 females

Tufted Duck - 20, similarly around 5 females

Greylag Goose - 1, dropped onto west pool

Canada Goose - 2, flew low to the west

Heron - 1

Little Grebe - 2 pairs on northern pools

Raven - 1, perched on nearby radio mast

Sand Martin - 1s & 2s occasionally doing a couple of circuits of the west pool & then gone

Chiffchaff - 14, singing around landfill

Blackcap - 1, occasional brief burst of song



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