Wednesday 26 September 2018

Wintersett + Vis.Mig 26.09.18

11 - 16 degrees with sun, scattered cloud and a light south westerly breeze.
Anglers CP VisMig: 
A Great White Egret flew south at 07.40hrs.  (GW Egret is still a good bird here though,  with previous records only in 1994, 2006, 2013 and 3 in 2016
Pink-footed Goose  212 west  ( 4 skeins - 38, 112, 53 19)  +  a skein of 8  south east.  Goosander 1 present , then left west.   Grey Heron 3 west.  Snipe 4 west.   Jay 5 east.  Starling 7 west.  Yellowhammer 1 west.
Going south:  Swallow 33.    House Martin   Stock Dove 3.  Meadow Pipit 7.  Siskin 15.
Anglers CP: The juvenile Garganey still present. Little Egret 1. Hobby 1. A Red Kite was over Haw Park. A Water Rail was in the SE corner.  Psycho, the adult Yellow-legged Gull was around the shallows and rafts. Pochard 23.  Teal 16. 
Wintersett Res: A male Cetti's Warbler was in the boathouse reeds.


                                Great White Egret migrating south over ACP   PMeredith



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