I have some catching up to do in posting terms, which isn't going to happen tonight, but keeping last years running total is proving interesting. As of today I am tracking exactly the same number and date, 74 on 17th, which doesn't impress me, but at least it means I have nothing to stress about.
The last 2 days dusk visits have been fascinating, so I look forward to posting on these tomorrow... I hope.
So, 16th I arrived around 15:45 with the West bound gulls heading to roost already, a Great Black-backed Gull was of note. I picked up a distant Green Sandpiper beyond LFGP, moving NE towards Twyford pits, a lone Snipe headed towards Lavell's. 2 then 2 more Ring-necked Parakeet headed West. Then a Kestrel hovered over West of Sandford Farm, then very distantly, to the point of questionable identification, 20+ Golden Plover were heading East into the dusk gloom around 16:15.
Last night an almost exact repeat, hearing Ring-necked Parakeet, a lone Snipe, but then a Peregrine shot East at 15:54, then back West 15:59, this was not the same pale bird of a few days back. Groups of Greylag Geese were heading towards DP, 8 landed at the far end of the landfill, then c40 came in and dropped on LFGP out of sight, then another c40 did the same, 20 of which peeled off back NW. A Kestrel did the same as yesterday too, so must do it's dusk rounds in the same places each night. Finally c20 Golden Plover again flew quickly East around 16:20.
Yesterday morning whilst Sandford Lane was blocked by the crashed pickup a pair of Nuthatch, called, sang and chased each other, around the newer house near to the Mill, before heading off to Sandford Copse. Geoff recently took a picture of an owl in the Barn Owl box, which appears to be a Tawny, meaning the park is on 82 for 2015.
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