Grafham 21 March 2013

A light ENE wind and mostly overcast with the sun breaking through occasionally, not quite springlike but getting there.....

At home a little bit of movement along the Ouse valley this morning with 11 Golden Plovers north, 1 Curlew north-west,  and c 20 Meadow PIpits also north-west.

 A lunchtime visit to Grafham covering the dam, lagoons and fishing lodge areas;  

The Slavonian Grebe was again off the Dam, a male Garganey on the Lagoons where there were also 12 Avocets, c.40 Shelduck,  c. 20 Redshank and 3 Snipe, an adult Kittiwake was  distantly off the fishing lodge, 2 adult Yellow-legged Gulls,  12 Fieldfares flew north, a male Greenland Wheatear was at the north end of the dam and 16 Siskins flew over north-east.

male Garganey
Slavonian Grebe
Avocet 






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