Sunday, 21 June 2015

21st June


A great, flat calm, overcast day perfect for netting (unfortunately all the nets have been taken down!) produced a few more already returning waders including 2 Bar-tailed Godwits, 3 Ruff and 70+ Curlew (with another 38 NW at sea).   Other birds on the sea first thing included an Arctic Skua, 122 Common Scoter, 9 Velvet Scoter, a Common Tern, 18 Red-breasted Mergansers and 5 Fulmars.

                The coast was very quiet with plenty of newly emerged Wheatear fledglings the only thing to keep me entertained while in Lebeltet there were 2 Spotted Flycatchers and a male Red-backed Shrike.



Plenty of fledgling Wheatears had emerged in the week I was away and were being watched over by very attentive parents

Baby Great Tit

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