A bright and sunny start
with a light southerly breeze; there was nothing really in the nets first thing
apart from fledgling Wrens, House Sparrows and Linnets before I walked the
Hooking census route as it clouded over.
It proved quite productive with a summer plumaged Black-throated Diver on the sea off Hooking, an
adult male Hen Harrier which flew high north over The Links (pretty
unseasonal!) and a female Garganey on Hooking.
Other birds included 21 Bar-tailed Godwits, 32 Golden
Plover, a Red-breasted Merganser, 2 Wigeon, 4 Gadwall, 30+ Sand Martins (I
counted 39 burrows on The Links) and an increase from yesterday to 73
Black-headed Gull fledglings. I went
over to Gretchen in the afternoon where I had good views of a smart pair of Red-necked Phalaropes in the middle of the loch along with 14 Dunlin and the 10
Shelducklings still hanging on.
Wheatears were busy feeding fledglings
As were Wrens
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