The trickle of waders continues with a Little Ringed Plover and Common Sandpiper on the dam and 4+ Green Sandpipers on the lagoons. Otherwise 1 Little Egret; 4 Red Kites; 6 Common Buzzards; 9 Yellow-legged Gulls (4 adults, 1 4th calendar year, 4 3rd calendar year and 1 2nd calendar year); 21 GBB Gulls; 7 LBB Gulls; 5 Herring Gulls;just 3 Common Terns; c 350 Swifts; c 20 Swallows; 4 Sand Martins resting on the dam wall were presumably failed breeders; 34 House Martins; 3 adult male Yellow Wagtails; a rather interesting female 'alba' Wagtail carrying food and paired to a standard issue male yarrelli at the lagoons (photo below), 4 Crossbills (1 male) which flew west over the lagoons and more surprisingly 5 Siskins (a two and a three) flew over south-west late morning, interestingly single figure moving Siskins were noted yesterday from a couple of east coast sites, it's always nice to tie in local patch movements with broader scale avian events recorded at star coastal locations even when on a small scale an in early July!
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Unusual female 'alba' wagtail - presumbaly a pale variant female yarrelli with the head
and upperpart pattern rather similar to winter male alba with a yellowish cast to the ear coverts and slate grey/black rump and uppertail coverts Paired with a standard issue male yarrelli. |
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