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TUESDAY 24
SEPTEMBER
Summer seems to have returned with
temperatures this afternoon reaching a balmy 24 degrees C. Light winds
throughout and clear skies but thick fog over part of the area until mid
morning....
At home in the garden, 4 BULLFINCH visited
the Sunflower Heart feeder for about 20 minutes around 0900 hours whilst over at
WILSTONE RESERVOIR (TRING), a full inventory went like this........
Highlight was a party of 4 EURASIAN CURLEW
and single BLACK-TAILED GODWIT that arrived noisily from the east at 1209, not
that long after the fog had cleared. After a few flyarounds, they eventually
came down on the Drayton bank and were still present after I had walked round to
the hide from the jetty. I was able to take a large number of images (see
immediately below) before they finally flew off strongly SSW at 1316. Bill
Pegram, JT and Ken Simmons all connected.
Great Crested Grebe (15 - including the 2
juveniles)
Little Egret (10)
Grey Heron (3)
Mute Swan (45)
Greylag Geese (78)
Mallard (260)
Common Teal (535 - large
increase)
Eurasian Wigeon (135 -
increase)
Gadwall (29)
NORTHERN PINTAIL (4 present - 3 drakes and a
female - my first of the autumn)
Northern Pochard (146)
Tufted Duck (not counted)
Red-crested Pochard (2, with both juveniles
still surviving on Tringford too)
Red Kite (5)
Common Buzzard (6)
HOBBY (at least 3 still
present)
WATER RAILS (8 along SE shore and another by
the hide)
Coot (down to 501 birds)
BLACK-TAILED GODWIT (still 4 juveniles
present whilst an additional bird arrived with the Curlew)
COMMON GREENSHANK (long-stayer still present
in Cemetery Corner)
Common Kingfisher (2)
Great Spotted Woodpecker (1)
Meadow Pipit (slight passage - 4
birds)
Grey Wagtail (4)
Mistle Thrush (2)
LESSER WHITETHROAT (3 - 2 in the East
Hedgerow and another in the orchard)
Blackcap (male in the orchard)
Long-tailed Tit (roving flock of 16 in wood
behind hide)
Chaffinch (light passage - 5 birds
noted)
Bullfinch (pair in the orchard)
WEEDONHILL WOODS, NEAR HYDE HEATH
(BUCKS)
Just in the nick of time, HOBBY was added to
my Recording Area Yearlist, with a family party of 4 birds hunting over the wood
(Don Stone had 5); also Sparrowhawk, 11 Common Buzzard, 15 Red Kite and 28 Stock
Doves, with 6 Barn Swallows through.
An array of Common Buzzards were in the air including the very white individual photographed above
Many Red Kites also
This juvenile Linnet was hungry
....whilst this tree held both the Great Spotted Woodpecker and Stock Dove above
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