Thursday 3 June 2010

03 June 2010

Nice sunny start to the day, warm temp 15c and got warmer as the morning progressed, dry no cloud and no wind of note, was at Westport from 05.40 - 08.10.

A new brood of Mallard chick hatched out with 5 young and another group of 3, Canada Geese are as you were with a total of 41 young, and a young Pied Wagtail was on the car park, the Great Crested Grebes are feeding at least 2 young on the model boating lake and another 7 Great Crested Grebes are on the main lake with 3x Tufted Duck on the ramp with a single Little Ringed Plover, 12 Mute Swans plus the single cygnet, another 4 Greylag Geese have joined the 2 already here and a couple of Black-headed Gulls were flying around with 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls.
A couple of Blackcaps were again singing along the 'Avenue', a single Chiffchaff in the Nature Reserve and another 2 on the old sewage works, same with Whitethroats, and 2x Willow Tit in the Reserve, 'Sammy' Shoveler is back, after being missing for nearly a week he returned this morning, a single Reed Bunting was on the top pool with 2/3 Reed Warblers, again the Willow Warbler was singing on the old sewage works with a single Stock Dove, and a Grey Wagtail was again feeding on the beach area.

Total species seen 43.

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