Waders are beginning to move through with a Curlew through south, 2 Redshanks on the dam, 2 Avocets and 2 Green Sandpipers on the lagoons otherwise - 3 Little Egrets, 7 Teal on the lagoons, 3 Red Kites, 4 Common Buzzards, 5 juvenile Lapwings on the lagoons, 4 Common Terns, 8 Yellow-legged Gulls (3 adults, 1 4th calendar year, 3 3rd calendar year and 1 2nd calendar year), 31 juvenile Pied Wagtails along the dam indicative of a good level breeding success no sign of any juvenile Yelllow Wagtails yet though, a lone Meadow Pipit along the dam was presumbaly a migrant. Many species of warblers again singing with vigour.
A male Ringlet butterfly was the first that I have seen this year...
Didn't take any photos today so here's a happy June memory from one of my trips to China taken just outside Songpan, Sichuan province in June 2010...
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| adult male Siberian Rubythroat in song |
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