Little Owl
An early morning cycle ride to The Midrips this morning, first stop was the local Little Owl sitting out in the early morning gloom. At Scotney the mirror calm lakes were smothered in feral geese, despite the yesterdays heavy rain more small islands have appeared in the lakes, but very few waders apart from Lapwing on the main lakes, 2 Ruff, 2 Common Sandpipers and a single Green Sandpiper with just 2 Curlew fighting for space on the sward among the Egyptian Geese. The Sward also held a couple of Wheatears and c20 Yellow Wagtails.
Only 3 Golden Plover in the ploughed field at Jurys Gap but I could see more on the shingle in the ranges.
Little Stint at The Midrips
Inside the Midrips on the shingle I counted 136 Golden Plover but unfortunately nothing else with them,
the green wall held the usual Yellow and Pied Wagtails, Wheatears and Meadow Pipits. The pools are looking much better thanks to the high tides, as usual the first was the most productive holding a Little Stint, a Sanderling, 5 Dunlin, and 8 Ringed Plovers, there were many Sandwich Terns off shore.
Little Stint with a Sanderling on The Midrips
Dunlin on The Midrips
A couple of the Wheatears that were present on the Green Wall at The Midrips
Juvenile Little Gull at the old Sandpit Jurys Gap At the sandpit today a juvenile Little Gull, 3 Common and 2 Green Sandpipers and a Hobby, moving on to flat pit where a Spotted Redshank, a Greenshank, 4 Common Sandpipers, 8 Dunlin and 4 Ruff were scattered around the margins. 3 more Ruff were on the eastern causeway.
Apparently the Red-necked Phalarope was still on Burrowes despite island clearance work clearing out all the other waders.
At the fishing boats this afternoon several Arctic Skuas, a couple of which gave close flybys, also several Little Terns and Black Terns with numerous Sandwich and Common Terns tooing and froing.
Juvenile Little Terns at the fishing boats
Juvenile Black tern at the fishing boats
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