An early morning visit to the dam for a couple of hours with a follow up visit to the lagoons at lunchtime.
6 Yellow-Legged Gulls (3 adults and 3 juveniles) were on the dam; c.30 Common Terns; 1 juvenile Greenshank at the lagoons; 1 Dunlin on the dam; 4 Common Sandpipers; c. 60 Yellow Wagtails on or near the dam included one variant - a very pale washed out bird with pale grey mantle and pure white supercilium; c. 70 Pied Wagtails feeding along the dam; good numbers of Chiffchaffs at the lagoons with c.20 counted; 3 Whinchats were on or near the dam early morning; 1 Wheatear on the dam; c. 80 Swallows; a juvenile Redsart in scrub at the north end of the dam and 6 Crossbills flew over NW.
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| Whinchat - first winter - Grafham Water 27 August 2013 |
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