Saturday, 11 May 2019

Wintersett + Great Reed Warbler + South Kirkby 11.05.19

7 - 9 degrees with 8/8 cloud,  intermittent rain from midday, and a cool north easterly.
Wintersett Res: The Great Reed Warbler still singing in the NW reedbed - seen 3 times this afternoon.   A Hobby flew over.   Black Tern 1.  Common Tern 20.  Goldeneye 1f. Treecreeper 1 south bank. Common Sandpiper 2.   Cetti's Warblers 3m + 1f.  Garden Warbler 3m - ruin,  boathouse reeds and east bank.  Sedge Warbler 1m east bank.  Mallard young - 5m + 9s/m..
Botany Hill: Cuckoo 1m
Anglers CP: A Little Egret was in briefly, then left north.  Oystercatcher 8. Wigeon 1m. 
Pochard 1m. 
Lepidoptera: A Dingy Skipper was on the east bank.  A male Brimstone was in Haw Park Wood.

South Kirkby:  The Iberian Chiffchaff still present.

Parking and directions for Great Reed Warbler.


                         Male Brimstone             HPWood     SDenny
Dingy Skipper           east bank WRes      PMeredith

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