Movements, SE 0900-1000:
Blue-winged Parakeet 1
Marsh Harrier 1
Common Swift 19
Insects:
Red-veined Darter 1 male West Shore near Sambo’s Grave
Clouded Yellow 1 NW
Proven breeding, broods seen:
Little Owl 1
Lapwing 1 West Shore Marsh
Redshank 2 West Shore Marsh (where also seven off-passage Dunlin)
Swallow 2
House Martin 3
Linnet 4
Meadow Pipit 4
Probable breeding, pairs:
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Common Whitethroat 2
Shelduck 2 West Shore
Skylark 2 West Shore Marsh
Stock Dove 2
Sedge Warbler 5
Reed Warbler 6
Glasson Marsh 42 adult Eider
I suspect the swallows and house martins were just the tip of the hirundine iceberg but I had limited time– Alan- roughly how many pairs of each do you have there this year? Cheers!
