Monday 3 September 2018

A Good Day

Sunny with hazy cloud, 22°, light N.

A good day by any standards out at Lollingdon today.

The walk out was reasonably quiet with the Bunting flock present around the Little Lollingdon area with 20ish Yellowhammer and a handful of Reed Bunting, plus a few Blackcap and Chiffchaff in the hedgerows.

All the action on the hill today was in a relatively short area of hedge with 2 Whinchat, a Wheatear, a Willow Warbler, a Lesser Whitethroat, a couple of Common Whitethroat and Blackcap and a few Chiffchaff.

The north side of the hill had 2 Jay and Great-spotted Woodpecker and Green Woodpecker present.

Off the hill there were 3 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Redstart, one of which was a cracking male, a couple more Blackcap and Common Whitethroat and several more Chiffchaff and a Hobby flew over.

A few Hirundines overhead today but were all flying over quite high.

On the return walk, 2 Yellow Wagtail and 2 Raven flew over, 2 Kestrel and 2 Bullfinch near the Bullshole.

Also watched a Buzzard have a tentative strike at a Hare but the Hare retaliated and put the Buzzard off the attack.

A visit by TW & AD later turned up 2 more Spotted Flycatcher (5 total), another Willow Warbler and a Garden Warbler.

Try as we might we could not get a pic of the Redstarts, one went off along the lane and the male was very active and had a tendency to stay in cover!

Mammals: Brown Hare.

Reptiles: 5 Common Lizard.

Dragonflies: Southern Hawker and Common Darter.

Butterflies: Large White, Small White, 1 Common Blue, 1 Brown Argus, 1 Red Admiral and several Speckled Wood.

 Whinchats (above & below courtesy Alan Dawson)

 Lesser Whitethroat
 Willow Warbler
 Whinchat
 Brown Argus
Spotted Flycatcher

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