Sightings

Main sighting: Whinchat

4 Whinchat with 6 Stonechat 1st hide. Yellow Wagtail 1 Pied Wagtail 3 White Wagtail 1 (Citrine Wagtail also seen today, but not by us) Ruff 1 Snipe 1 Great White Egret 1 Little Egret 6 Grey Heron 2 Green Woodpecker 1 Chiffchaff 8 Great Tit Blue Tit Long-tailed Tit Swallow House Martin Kestrel 2 Sparrowhawk 1. On the foreshore Shelduck 60 Curlew 10 Oystercatcher 8 Black-headed Gull 150 and lots of Gadwall on Priors.

Main sighting: Whinchat

No sign of the citrine wagtail at Goldcliff lagoons between 7 and 9. A couple of juvenile pieds, showing obvious ‘bibs’ and two adult yellow wagtail from Snipe platform. A few Black-tailed godwit, single ruff, two green sandpiper and 7 or so little egret. Single kestrel and, from first hide, a whinchat. Very good numbers of sand martin.

Main sighting: Citrine Wagtail

0545 – 1000hrs visit, 56 species noted, highlights included 3 kestrels (1 juv), pheasant, 4 chiffcahffs (contact calls), 3 stock doves and 1 buzzard. Redshank platform saw 70 roosting lapwing, and a pair of barn owls were quartering the lagoons at 0601hrs (1 flew off towards the seawall tearooms direction). Snipe platform had all the activity with 9 little egrets, 3 herons, 3 snipe, cettis calling, green woodpecker calling, 28 gadwall, another 110 lapwing, 1 ruff, 1 little stint, 1 green sandpiper, 17 black-tailed godwits, 1 dunlin, 278 sand martins passing through (aerial feeding), pair of little grebes, 2 yellow wagtails, 17 redshank, juv male stonechat, 5 ringed plover, 6 teal, linnets, and the citrine wagtail feeding along the edge of the reeds on the right hand side of the lagoon (0900hrs). 100+ swallows aerial feeding in the field with the hay bales. Seawall – pair of wheatears, 223 shelduck on the saltings with 29 oystercatchers, 22 curlew, 32 dunlin and a juv male peregrine perched on the usual log. Marsh platform – single reed and sedge warblers and shoveler.

Main sighting: Citrine Wagtail

A fine juvenile Citrine wagtail associating with Yellow, Pied and White wagtails at approx 16:20 this afternoon, I picked this bird up on call before eventually pinning it down on the deck. A lovely juvenile Little stint also around, along with Great egret, Ruff, 2 Greenshank, and Black tailed godwits. Decent movement of hirrundines in the rain too. Pics + video on my twitter.

Main sighting: Young Buzzard

Young grounded buzzard not quite fledged but unable to get off ground. Dog walkers need to take care. Sand martins over.

Main sighting: OSPREY

Another Osprey spotted by my Wife (Hannah) travelling South over South Fields at height

Main sighting: Osprey

Large adult osprey at altitude heading SSE high over garden at 1600 this afternoon .

Main sighting: Common Sandpiper

5-Common Sandpipers,7-Ravens,8-Stock Doves,35+Mallards,1-Kingfisher,family groups of both Chiffchaffs and Grey Wagtails.Butterflies few and far between and then only whites.10h30-13h15

Main sighting: Great White Egret

1-Great White Egret at the Gout this afternoon 14h35-15h15

Main sighting: swifts

A small passage of swifts, screaming high over orchard at 1900hrs @ 12 – 15 birds heading south

Main sighting: Spotted flycatcher

Spotted flycatcher, 2 buzzards, 2 grey herons, great spotted and green wpecker.

Main sighting: Nightjar

Walking the dog after sunset to avoid the heat of the day, from Cadeira Beeches on Thursday and Friday, a Nightjar put in very close appearances both nights, with a bonus Woodcock on Friday.