Monthly Archives: April 2024

The day started early, 4am at home, on the road for 5:15am, arriving at Frampton at 8am and one hundred and ten miles later.

The first port of call as always is the area next to the car park, where once again the Lesser Yellowlegs was still present, now running well into its six, if not more in the UK. Other present around here were Dunlin, Lapwing, Little Egret, Ruff, Redshank, Moorhen, Mallard, Pintail, Shoveler, Gadwall, Teal to name a few. I decided on walking down the road, which runs down to the marsh, stating of course next to the visitor centre, from here i saw Marsh Harrier, Mute Swan, Greylag Geese, Great Crested Grebe and a lovely displaying Little Ringed Plover, so lovely to see its display flight and calling. Moving on from there, I saw more Ruff in the field opposite, along with plenty of Brent Geese, despite looking thru the flock, I couldn’t find the Red Breasted Goose, a couple of Pied Wagtails were in the field, along with a couple of White Wagtails.

Further along the road, I heard a call I hadn’t heard since last year, it turned out to be a Sedge Warbler, along the road side ditch, turned out to be a few down here, with one bird showing rather well, needless to say I took quite a few photos, well a lot. further along the road there were more Brent Geese, once again no reported Red Breasted Goose, it was definitely giving me the run around, amongst the Geese were now lovely looking Black tailed Godwits, now in breeding plumage. On the other side of the road were plenty of Black headed Gulls and with careful scanning a few Mediterranean Gulls, I found six.

Hearing then that the Red Breasted Goose had moved on to the far field, I headed off that way, a bit of a walk but did see Skylarks, Meadow Pipits, Little Egret, Redshank and Dunlin on the way, but never did seethe Red Breasted Goose. Back up near visitor centre, looking out towards the farm building, someone had found some distant Yellow Wagtails, they easily stood out due to the colourful plumage..

After dinner I decided on going along the top path to once again try and for the Red Breasted Goose and Black winged Stilt, over near the farm side of the reserve, but once again turned into a fruitless task, did see however, Redshank, Spotted Redshank, Curlew Sandpiper, Greenshank, and down along the track that leads to the farm, about six Yellow Wagtails, giving excellent views, also I got better views of the two Barnacle Geese from here. My last call was back at the Visitor Centre where there were some Swallows, House Martins and Sand Martins going thru, a nice ending to a lovely day, also breaking my Frampton Day Visit List at 70 Species (106 Total)

Video of the Day can be seen HERE

Bird List ; Avocet, Barnacle Goose, Black Tern, Blackbird, Blackcap, Black headed Gull, Black tailed Godwit, Black winged Stilt, Brent Goose, Buzzard, Canada Goose, Carrion Crow, Cetti’s Warbler, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff, Collard Dove, Coot, Curlew, Curlew Sandpiper, Dunlin, Egyptian Goose, Gadwall, Goldfinch, Great Crested Grebe, Great White Egret, Greenfinch, Greenshank, Grey Heron, Greylag Goose, House Martin, Jackdaw, Lapwing, Lesser Yellowlegs, Little Egret, Little Grebe, Little Gull, Little Ringed Plover, Magpie, Mallard, Marsh Harrier, Meadow Pipit, Mediterranean gull, Moorhen, Mute Swan, Osprey, Oystercatcher, Pheasant, Pied Wagtail, Pintail, Pochard, Redshank, Reed Bunting, Ringed Plover, Robin, Ruff, Sand martin, Sedge Warbler, Shelduck, Shoveler, Skylark, Snipe, Spotted Redshank, Starling, Swallow, Teal, Tufted Duck, White Wagtail, Whooper Swan, Woodpigeon, Wren, Yellow Wagtail (70)

Black Tern

Sedge Warbler

Yellow Wagtail