Saturday 27 September 2008

27 SEPTEMBER 2008




Juvenile Ruff - present on Wilstone Reservoir for its third day - and only the SECOND Ruff recorded at the reservoirs in 2008
SATURDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2008

WILSTONE RESERVOIR (2 visits; 1100-1300 & 1700-1900; with Steve & Vicky Rodwell)

It was not until virtually midday that the fog started to clear and allow clear visibility. It then gradually got warmer, peaking at an above average high of 72 degrees C. There was no wind.

Great Crested Grebes - 19
Little Grebes - 8
LITTLE EGRETS - 2 remain present
Mute Swans - just 22 remain
WHOOPER SWANS - the adult pair remain in residence, today having a fallout with one of the male Mute Swans in front of the hide. They succeeded in seeing him off.
Eurasian Wigeon - 142
Common Teal - 238
Gadwall - 11
*NORTHERN PINTAIL - all 7 birds again present, favouring the 'SW quarter'.
Tufted Duck - 72
Northern Pochard - 53
RUDDY DUCK - 3

Lapwing (250+)
EUROPEAN GOLDEN PLOVER - 2 early on increased to 11 by evening
RINGED PLOVER - 1 mobile bird remaining
RUFF - the juvenile still present (for its 3rd day) - a male on size. On mud well right of hide.
COMMON SANDPIPER - 2 together on mud by the new overflow
Common Snipes - 4

WATER RAIL - adult still
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL - 2 adults flew east

COMMON KINGFISHER (2)
BARN SWALLOW - flock of 13 flew through eastwards at 1240

Stock Dove (3)
Meadow Pipits (12 over)

**ROCK PIPIT - both RH and DB saw what they believed to be a Rock Pipit briefly in flight.

MARSH TIT - a ringed individual was feeding on thistle heads adjacent to the footpath between Cemetery Corner and the gate to the boathouse early morning, the first record in over 12 months at the location (Roy Hargreaves).


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