Seems a waste if I didn’t go out in this nice sunny weather, so I forced myself to go down to Old Moor, there was a report of a Little Gull on site this morning.
Arriving at 9am, I seemed to have the reserve to myself for a while, I didn’t come across anyone, which was unusual, anyway first stop was the feeders, Reed Bunting, Bullfinch, Dunnock, Goldfinch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, and Blackbird, the usual crew for here. I then moved, heading towards the Wath Ings Hide direction, calling in at the Lookout Hide first to look thru the Gulls, Black headed, Lesser Black backed, and Herring Gulls were present, no Mediterranean present and no Little Gull.
On to Green Lane were you can look over the Mere at head height, depending on how tall you are, looking thru the gulls once again, talking with another guy, he had just found a first winter Little Gull, not the reported Adult of earlier. Other birds here were Tufted Duck, Gadwall, Moorhen, a Red Kite, Marsh Harrier, two Buzzards overhead, a calling Cetti’s Warbler from the nearby bushes with a Chiffchaff giving the “chiff” “chaff” type call.
Popping in to Wader scrape hide, saw no waders and very little birds, I moved on to Wath Ings hide, seeing a couple of Butterflies on route Peacock and Small Tortoiseshell, only thing new at Wath Ings, was a Goldeneye ♀, Cormorants anbd a calling Little Grebe.
Down on the loop, I came across a few Gorse Shieldbugs, Common Wasps, and various species of Bees, a small fly with nicely marked wings (Tephritis crepidis), Brimstone Butterfly, calling Oystercatchers overhead with Lapwings on the East Pool.
Birds Seen : Black headed Gull, Blue Tit, Bullfinch, Canada Goose, Carrion Crow, Cetti’s Warbler, Chiffchaff, Coot, Cormorant, Dunnock, Gadwall, Goldeneye, Goldfinch, Great Tit, Greenfinch, Greylag Goose, Herring Gull, Lapwing, Lesser Black backed Gull, Little Grebe, Little Gull, Mallard, Marsh Harrier, Moorhen, Oystercatcher, Pochard, Red Kite, Reed Bunting, Robin, Shoveler, Teal, Tufted Duck, Wigeon (34)
Butterflies Seen : Brimstone, Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell, Speckled Wood
Tephritis crepidis
Redshank
Peacock
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