Saturday 4 April 2009

Corking querquedulas

The garganey pair flew onto Freeman's Pools at 9.15am (Jeff Butcher saw them come off Bank Pool) and were still present when I left at 10.40am, resting up on the western bank of the main pool. 9 gadwall were still on the pools though I couldn't see the little-ringed plovers on the island, though Jeff saw them there earlier.
Also present in the area were 2 raven (attracting the attention of the local carrion crows), a green sandpiper on the Wildfowlers' Pools and a blackcap singing in Freeman's Wood. A small party of pinkfeet were in the stubble fields.
A good scattering of sand martin were moving through but other than a single meadow pipit there were little other signs of any migration in action though Dan & Steve had had 2 wheatear, a chiffchaff and a goldcrest.
A couple of little egrets were kicking around and I saw my first common toad (alive, that is) of the year! Oh, and now that the stoats are back to 'normal' they seem to delight in showing brilliantly... swines.

No comments: