Aldcliffe AM

[Dan Haywood]

#9817

NW 2 later 3, 7 Oktas, 9 degrees

Freeman’s Pools

Little Grebe 3
Great Black-backed Gull 3
Mute Swan 3
Reed Warbler 3 in song
Tufted Duck 2 (pair)
Sedge Warbler 1 in song
Reed Bunting 1 in song
(no evidence of BH gull colony)

In most early to Mid Mays I do a singing warbler count along the cycle path between Freeman’s Pools and Stodday Picnic Area. This morning’s tally below doesn’t compare too well so hopefully there are more arrivals to come to plug the gaps;

Blackcap 5
Whitethroat 4
Lesser Whitethroat 3
Sedge Warbler 3 competing close together by Wildfowlers Pools S
Chiffchaff 2 only but a further 3 seen foraging
Cetti’s Warbler 1
Willow Warbler 1 probable migrant

Further to this transect, singing warblers noted elsewhere in my quick morning circuit included;

Whitethroat 1 at 466 598 near Aldcliffe Village plus 2 at Fairfield NR
Lesser Whitethroat 2 at Fairfield NR

Aldcliffe Marsh;

Redshank- plenty of song flight activity from 8 or 9 birds, perhaps indicating that some clutches have been lost to recent spring tides.

Whimbrel 3

Lapwing 1 male displaying over south end

Jackdaw 1 showing characteristics of Eastern forms (see pic)

Visible migration noted in one hour limited to;

Swallow 4 N
Swift 2 N
Siskin 1 NE

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