Tuesday 11 August 2015

11th August


Heavy rain for the first couple of hours soon drifted away to leave a nice, sunny day; there were a few waders on the move offshore with small numbers of Knot, Dunlin and Oystercatchers heading south while the first 5 juvenile Kittiwakes of the autumn went north as did a drake Velvet Scoter and a couple of Bonxies were lingering with intent.   Other birds in the morning included a Little Grebe on Vågsvollvåien (actually only the third ever August record!) where there were also 5 Ruff and c30 Snipe with 22 Knot and 9 Dunlin resting in Vågsvollvika.

                There were good numbers of waders around the coast where totals comprised 29 Greenshank, 24 Common Sandpipers, 26 Redshank, 3 Wood Sandpipers, 36 Dunlin, 2 Sanderling and single Little Stint and Turnstone while 46 Teal was another slight increase.  

Three Sparrowhawks were hunting along the coast while inland birds of note included 9 Red-backed Shrikes of various ages, 2 Pied Flycatchers and 5 Crossbills (with a couple of them having interesting deep calls but I couldn’t get good enough views of them).   Out across the fields there was a notable increase to 47 Golden Plover along with 72 Curlew, 4 Bar-tailed Godwits and 2 Ruff.





A selection of Knots

Heron

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