Tuesday 28 July 2020

Wintersett 28.07.20 + 29.07.20

Wintersett 29.07.20

Anglers CP:  Greenshank 1 over.  Great Crested Grebe 9. Tufted Duck 1 young + 6 young WRes..  A juvenile Little Ringed Plover  and a juvenile  Ringed Plover were on the shallows.  Cormorant 6. 
Wintersett Res: Tufted Duck 45 + 151 CHRes + 2 ACP.  Mallard 50 + 84 CHRes.  + 29 ACP.
Little Grebe 1.  Goldeneye 1 f.  Wigeon 1.
Odonata: Emperor 1 male.
Reptile: The red-eared Terrapin was in  the north east corner.
Overnight Moth Trapping revealed 2 Nicrophorus investigator beetles.


Wintersett  28.07.20

12 - 17 degrees with sun, varying cloud and a strengthening, cool north westerly.
Anglers CP: A Ruddy Shelduck flew in from the south,   circled ACP and left south 07.20hrs per Gray Speight.
Wintersett Res: Pete Smith spotted a juvenile Black-necked Grebe in the NW corner at 11.55hrs.  Little Grebe 2.  Oystercatcher 2.  Goldeneye 1 female.  Great Crested Grebe 41 + 4 CHRes.  + 4 ACP.  Sand Martin 250. 
Cold Hiendley Res: Mandarin 1 eclipse drake.
Moorhouse Lane Pond: Little Grebe 20.  Moorhern 17 and Teal 1. 
Botany Bay: Kingfisher 1.
Lepidoptera: Ralph Hibbert and Les Corrall had 2 Meadow Browns in Haw Park Wood.  

 Black-necked Grebe juvenile  WRes  GJSpeight

Black-necked Grebe juvenile photo-bombed by a Tufted Duck and a Sand Martin. SDenny
 









































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