An 08:00 visit to LFGP scored me Coal Tit heard half way to the green bridge, then at the hide of course met with bright sunlight directly into your face and still low enough to create much spangling of the water and cause havoc with attempts to carefully scan the whole East and North East lakes edges for waders.
4 eclipse Shoveler off the North spit and a lone LRP was all I could find, other than the usual Lapwing scattered all around the lake, with the SW corner water receding quite quickly, we may see the whole shelf without any water again, first time since July 2011. If it stays that way, we might still be commissioning Steve Thompson to profile the shelf into islets and gullies, providing much more ideal depths of water for more waders, herons, egrets and dabbling ducks.
I am keeping my eyes fixed on the NE and SW corners for a good wader and would love to finally see a Little Stint, there are only three reports;
8th July 1983 (Andrew Carmichael)
22nd Sept 1993 (Brian Uttley)
10th to 12th Sept 1995 (OU)
We have no initials, so it goes down 'Observer Unknown' (OU) for the claimed 1995 bird, no regulars recall any mention of it at the time, nor is there any mention in the Berkshire Bird Report, so this report has to remain unconfirmed.
That said we are well overdue our first Pectoral Sandpiper and I think LFGP's shallow edges will appeal to any such passing species, I hope for many types.
A walk on to the bailey bridge and lots of Whitethroat feeding young, on the return journey a Cuckoo called and I am not sure I've heard one this late before?
At Sandford a pair of adult Nuthatches were frantically gathering food for some minutes, before flying off towards Sandford Copse.
A lone Oystercatcher appears to have stopped looking for its young, very sad.
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