Aldcliffe/Wildfowlers

[Clay G]

#9078

28/8 evening 18:15-19:30

Field between Aldcliffe Hall Lane and Smugglers’ Track:
Flock of gulls feeding on freshly mown field. Mostly Black-headed with some Herring & Lesser Black-backed and at least two adult Med Gulls.
Also a Heron, to whom the gulls did not take kindly

Flooded field at bottom of AH Lane:
3 Green Sandpiper
2 Pied Wagtail
1 Stock Dove
1 Moorhen

Wildfowlers’ Pools:
c20 Mallard
c5 Teal
1 Heron
1 Little Egret
3 Little Grebe (2 ad summer + 1 other)
4 Moorhen
c10-15 Swallows feeding
2 Chiffchaff calling
A few Greenfinch among 15-20 Goldfinch

[Clay G]

#9089

02/09 evening 17:30-19:00

Flood:
19 Teal
1 Green Sandpiper
1 Moorhen
1 Black-headed Gull determined to swallow a fish wider than its own neck

Wildfowlers:
c40 Teal (but the Flood was empty when I went back)
c10 Mallard
3 Shoveler
5 Moorhen
2 Snipe
1 juv Curlew Sandpiper (also seen earlier in the day around lunchtime)
1 Heron
1 Jay
2 Chiffchaff calling
1 Grey Wagtail

Aldcliffe Marsh – only a brief stop by the gate but 2 Black-tailed Godwits on a nearby pool

Fields by AH Lane:
c120 Black-headed Gulls
32 Med Gulls (31 ad, 1 fw)

[Clay G]

#9090

For info for anyone not using WhatsApp: Curlew Sandpiper still present this morning.

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