Tuesday 27 August 2019

Wintersett + Ringing + Insects + Gull Roost 27.08.19

19 - 22 degrees,  Hot and sunny with a light westerly.
Anglers CP VisMig: 
Going south:  A Green Sandpiper at 06.46hrs.  + 2 more at 09.07 hrs..  Teal 3.  Meadow Pipit 1.  Chiffchaff 2.   Swift 1.  Swallow 2.
Anglers CP: 2 Tree Pipit dropped onto Pol, then went west at 08.25hrs.,  another Tree Pipit  dropped onto Pol at 08.35hrs.  A Nuthatch was calling on the  hill + 1 in Haw Park Wood yard.
2 Greenshank were in this evening. Shoveler 2.  Wigeon 1.
Haw Park Wood: Treecreeper 1. 
32 Birds were ringed: Highlights were - Green Woodpecker 1 juvenile.  Blackcap 7.  Reed Warbler 7.  Chiffchaff 7.  Willow Warbler 5.  Treecreeper 1.
Gull Roost WRes:  1500 Black-headed Gulls were in this evening.
Lepidoptera: Meadow Brown 2.  Common Blue 1.  Painted Lady 3.  Brimstone 1 male.  Small Tortoiseshell 1.  Green-veined White 1.
Odonata: A Southern Hawker was on Haw Park Lane.
Moth trapping overnight highlights:  Maiden's Blush -3rd record.  Bulrush Wainscot.  Frosted Orange.  Centre-barred Sallow 1.

                         Green Woodpecker juvenile        ACP          ASmith

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