Monday, 28 April 2025

Carlton Marsh & Woolley

Carlton Marsh
New in today 2 House Martins. The Cuckoo showed well and sang for most of the morning (M. White/CG).

A Little Ringed Plover left the wader scrape north at 07.15hrs (K. Bannister).

A Canada Goose had a brood of 6 new very small young on the scrape and the Swans appeared to scraping a nest together.

Woolley
4 House Martins and 3 Buzzards were in the air.
 
Butterflies included 47 Peacock, 15 Dingy Skipper, 1m Brimstone, 1 Small Copper, 52 Orange-tip (mostly feeding on rape), 25 Large White, and 81 White species. 
 
A Large Red Damselfly was on the wing and there were hundreds of Tadpoles in the ponds (C. Parkin).

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