Back to Birding

With the Heligoland Trap now complete and already at least 6 Common Whitethroats trapped its time to start birding again. On the way to The Patch a Black Redstart was singing on the power staion and a female was on the perimeter wall. At The Patch 5+ Mediterranean Gulls including CR 36P5 among the usual Gulls, a Fulmar E, a few Gannets mainly moving E, and 20+ Common Scoter W and little else of note.
Plodding back along the top of sea wall towards the seawatch hide 4 Common Sandpipers dropped onto the beach, Autumn migration has started.

3rd cal.yr Mediterranean Gull 36P5

4 Common Sandpipers

 After inspecting the finished Heligoland Trap a cup of tea in the obs garden where a Lime Green Hawk Moth was posing.

Lime Green Hawk Moth

 At the south end of the ARC Pit c350 Pochard, c100 Tufted Duck, c50 Gadwall, c30 Shoveller, 10+ Teal loafing on the shore and another Common Sandpiper.

Some of the 500+ duck at the south end of the ARC Pit

The track to The Tower found 2 Hobby's, 2 Marsh Harriers, Lesser and Common Whitethroats, Reed, Sedge, Cetti's Warblers a Cuckoo, 2 Green woodpeckers and a Great Spotted Woodpecker.
On the way home the Turtle Dove was on the wires opposite Lydd Golf Club.

Turtle Dove opposite Lydd Golf Club