Monday 27 April 2020

Carlton Marsh

This morning on the wader scrape 150 Herring Gulls, 2 Redshanks and 1 Green Sandpiper. (K. Bannister). The GW Egret was not seen today!

Elsewhere on the reserve singing birds included 1 Coal Tit, 5 Reed Warblers, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 L. Whitethroat, 5 Whitethroats, 5 Sedge Warblers, 15 Wrens, 12 Chiffchaffs, 12 Blackcaps, 9 Willow Warblers and 4 Song Thrushes.
A Swift with a House Martin headed north at 09.23hrs., our first this year. (CG)
This afternoon a Red Kite flew over the wader scrape at 14.25hrs. (Dave Tattershall)  

Green Sandpiper (Richard Laverack)

Cudworth Common
A Cuckoo was singing at the bottom of Lidget Lane, 2 Buzzards were up together and 6 House Martins, 1 Sand Martin and 10 Swifts were heading north. (Les Corrall)
In his Cudworth garden, Les has a Mistle Thrush nest with 3 young and a Goldfinch nest with young.

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