Friday 7 August 2015

August 7th
We spent another sunny morning ringing, this time at Shuart. During our time there we saw 3 Kestrels, 2 Green Woodpeckers, 2 Willow Warblers, 1 Great Spotted Woodpeckers, 3 Common Buzzards, 4 Ring-necked Parakeets, 1 Garden Warblers, 56 Linnets, 1 Raven landing in the sheep fields at Netherhale, 15 Long-tailed Tits, 1 Hobby feeding on dragonflies, 5 Blackcaps, 5 Whitethroats, 30 Reed Warblers, 10 Sedge Warblers, including a leucistic bird, 1 Siskin, 8 Greenfinches, 1 Sparrowhawk, 12 Greylag Geese, 1 Grey Heron and 4 Mallard.

Leucistic Sedge Warbler

This evening Matt walked around the Oyster Farm and saw 10 Redshank, 5 Dunlin, 7 Common Sandpipers, 2 Green Sandpipers, 1 Greenshank, 5 Grey Herons, 8 Little Egrets and 1 Little Owl.



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