Thursday 19 September 2019

Wintersett + VisMig + Ringing 19.09.19

15 - 21 degrees with 0/8 cloud, blue sky, hot and sunny with a very light south westerly.
Anglers CP VisMig:  2 skeins of Pink-footed Goose - 42 east at 08.44hrs and 16 east at 08.51hrs.
2 Great White Egret flew east  at 10.23hrs (the first sight record of two together here).
Going south: A Curlew, a Skylark, 10 Swallow,  7 alba Wagtail, 71 Meadow Pipit. 2 Chaffinch and 4 Reed Bunting.  6 high flying Dunnocks were an unusual highlight, but not sure if they were going far.
Anglers CP: Pintail 3.  Green Woodpecker 1.  Teal 5.    Pochard 1 female in full wing moult.
Wintersett Res:  29 Chiffchaff were around the area this morning, most on the east bank WRes.  Sedge Warbler 1 (not a bad date) , Blackcap 3 and Lesser Whitethroat 1. A Reed Warbler was on the north bank.  Kingfisher 1.  A Hobby was feeding on dragonflies.
57 birds were ringed: Highlights were - 11 Blackcap   4 Chiffchaff   1 Reed Warbler   1 Coal Tit   8 Goldfinch   22 Chaffinch  
Lepidoptera: A Red Admiral  and 2 large Whites at Botany Paddock.  A Brown Argus Moorhouse Lane Pond  + 1 and a Small White were on the Pol ACP.   
Odonata: A Brown Hawker east bank, WRes..   Ruddy Darters, Common Darters and Migrant Hawkers were aroung Moorhouse Lane Ponds.

2 Great White Egret          Botany Hill         PMeredith  



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