Thursday 4 September 2014

Misty start..where are the early passage waders?

I woke early and got down to BSL by 06:10, nothing!

On to LFGP and plenty of ducks, I didn't count the Gadwall, but reckon about 100 and a few more Shoveler, 6+ Wigeon. A lone Snipe on the East shore and then a Yellow Wagtail called and picked it up circling the nearby landfill, when it turned and disappeared off North.

Marek arrived and we discussed when the waders come thru, what wind direction and conditions are best, but it never seems to be something you can predict and you have to wonder if it is worth getting up early most of the time in hope of such things. at that moment, a lone Common Sandpiper flicked off to our right into the SW corner.

But we do get up early, well I do sometimes and sometimes it comes good, most often it doesn't and you have to put it down to being in a small landlocked county and DP not providing big enough expanse of water to pull in stuff regularly.

Perhaps on misty mornings like these, you are better to wait until it starts to clear, like yesterday, which wasn't about waders, but any evidence passage is nice. And when you consider the waders I've had this autumn, most have been after 09:00 anyway.

We also heard Nuthatch and Grey Wagtail for September, before going back to the car park to hear and see nothing!

Another early'ish lunch at the car park yielded a Hobby again quartering the airspace of Lavell's and the landfill, just a few small groups of Swallow and House Martin and then a Yellow Wagtail which as per normal I heard first and then saw it was a male coming heading sort of SSW over the sailing club just East of us, it about faced looked likely to come down near the sailing club, before heading off back East.

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