I had a couple of hours early evening walking round the South Lake at
Longham, Swifts , Swallows and House Martins in the air wheeling this way and
that hawking insects with superb agility.
Out on the water I counted Tufted Duck c113 there must be nearly 200
tufted across the site as on the I had a walk round the north lake and counted
60 on the water that evening, Mallards c25, Mute Swan 20 and 2 Great Crested
Grebe plus the usual coots and herring gulls.
A long the western side up to Samuels Wood the best was a Cetti’s Warbler
on show for a brief second or two, a Whitethroat a singing Chiffchaff.
While standing listerning to the bird song at the south west corner of the
lake I watched two Stock Dove come in from the east and go in to Samuels Wood,
then from behind the pools some Woodpigeons took the sky and suddenly out of no
were a Peregrine comes bombing through heading north west across the lake. This
Peregrine now brings my site list up to 82 for the year and the PWC,I hope to
get a hundred species for the site by the end of the year but I think is going
to be very hard going.
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