Paxton Pits 30 April 2012


Migration in full swing this morning with 2 Ospreys going through east (@ 10.25 photo above and 12.10), 3 Hobbies north, 1 later 2 Bar-tailed Godwits one a dowdy first-summer and the second a splendid summer plumaged male, 3 Turnstones, 3 Greenshanks, 2 pairs of Avocets, 3 Arctic Terns among 123 Common terns, small numbers of Swifts moving east, 15 Yellow Wagtails north with the odd one dropping in one of which turned out to be a male Blue-headed, 2 White Wagtails, 3 Whinchats, 4 Wheatears. At least 10 Nightingales counted in song this morning and good numbers of common warblers. (managed to miss a drake Garganey)

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