Just 2 Little Egrets; a family group of 4 Hobbies over the dam early afternoon; 7 Common Buzzards; 1 juvenile Dunlin on the dam; 1 Ostercatcher; 2 Common and 5 Green Sandpipers; c 25 Yellow-legged Gulls late aftrnoon; c. 20 Common Terns; 1 adult Arctic Tern off Dudney Creek; c.40 Swallows south with 20+ lingering; 3 Spotted Flycatchers; 3 Whinchats (1 at the Dam 2 at the Yacht Club); c and 25 Yellow Wagtails
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| A strikingly handsome and pale wagtail on the dam with upperpart plumage tones closer to race alba but with a few black mantle feathers coming through, extensive greyish flanks (flank feathers obscuring coverts) and a solid black lower rump and tail coverts features broadly indicative of race yarrelli though the rump pattern and upperpart tones were atypical they do occur in a small percentage of individuals of this race |
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