Female/immature Wheatear along farborough Bank plus 4 Yellow
Wagtail while an adult Yellow-legged Gull was on one of the buoys and 100+Swift
over the north shore
Bank Holiday Weekend
Spent the bank holiday mothing in Kent with the odd bit of birding and
cricket thrown in when it wasn’t to wet or blustery. Trapped a few unfamiliar
species that I don’t see in my home county such as Mullien Wave, Mathews
Wainscot, Star-wort, Feathered Ranunculus, Tree Lichen Beauty, Plumed Fan-foot,
Pretty Chalk Carpet, Scarce Chocolate-tip and Sharp-angled Peacock while there
were a few obvious migrants around such as Rush Veneer, Rusty Dot Pearl and
Silver Y. On the birding front Purple Heron, Great White Egret, a few Garganey
and a reasonable skua passage kept the day hobby ticking over.
I’m not a cricket lover – preferring the game to be livened
up with tip and run using tennis balls but I got roped in to a charity match
which played under cricketing rules in the first innings which was boring but
as the tide came in for the second innings then the rules became more bizarre
with the encroaching sea the boundary which made sixes dead easy to get and the
inebriated umpires insisting the ball was in play when a dog ran off with it
allowing one batsmen to score 76 in an over while everyone else ran around like
silly buggers trying to catch the pooch. Luckily they finally decided to end the
match when the bails drifted off. Still it was fun.
August 29th Draycote Water
Certainly a bit of passage going on when Dave and I popped
in to the pond before the heavy rain arrived with at least one possibly two
Blue-headed Wagtails on farborough bank and 14 Yellow Wagtail on toft bank
along with 4 juvenile and one adult male Wheatear plus 3 Swift were over the
north side.
August 30th Draycote Water
A blustery west wind turning north west gusting occasionally
over 20mph with the odd shower thrown in for comfort, but no hoped for
sea-birds - just 2 Common Tern present. Other sightings Grey Wagtail, 3
Wheatear, 6 Yellow Wagtail but no sign of any blue-heads, single Common
Sandpiper and Dunlin. A Vapourer Moth and Migrant Hawker were in toft shallows.
Single juvenile Raven and 2 Buzzard over windmill lane on the way home.
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