Winter is here, meteorologically speaking anyway..
A cool dawn with an overcast sky saw me setting up a few nets in the Willow and Reed areas, after a quiet start the pace picked up with 13 Reed Buntings in the Reed net, along with last weeks Cetti's Warbler. The Willow bush net produced a single Chaffinch and a lonely Blue Tit.
There were several Water Rail calling in the reeds but none would react to the tape lure.
Three Red-breasted Mergansers flew over heading West
Its good to get a few reed Buntings ringed as there are a lot on site and they do move about the area.
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With today being volunteer day we set off on a few tasks, pot hole filling and putting up a few signs, well nothing is straight forward but suffice to say pot holes filled and a sign up before lunch, but not before being pleased to see a HEN HARRIER , quartering the lower and middle marsh, it was a "ringtail" which means it was either a female or an immature. species 138 for the year.
Of course the camera was in the car............................
Over lunch a ♂ Merlin came and sat on a fence post in very close range, then I noticed two large white birds heading from the NNW they were swans and as I said a quiet prayer they were indeed WHOOPER SWANS species 139 for the year.
Whooper Swans
(not todays photo, they were flying in the other direction!!)
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This week is turning into something of a purple patch in terms of new birds appearing on or over the recording area, what will be number 140..???
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