Monday, 7 September 2020

Whinchat

Sunny at first then clouding over, 18°, breezy SW.

A few bits on the hill today, a nice Whinchat present along with a Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat and a couple of Chiffchaff.

3 Kestrel also present and being harried frequently by passing Rooks.

A good passage again of Hirundines with 200+ over the hill and Alan had quite a few along the Bunk line this morning an almost equal mix of Swallow and House Martin.

A look around the cattle field found a Willow Warbler, several more Chiffchaff, 2 Common Whitethroat, a Blackcap and 5 Yellowhammer.

A 100+ Lesser Blackback Gull over the hill as well and all joining the Gull flock in the pig fields.

A couple of Jay heard along the Bunk line near the Jubilee field.

Mammals: a Stoat hunting Rabbits and disappeared down a Rabbit hole not to be seen again!

Dragonflies: 3 Southern Hawker and several Common Darter.

Butterflies: several Large White and Small White, 2 Red Admiral and 1 Speckled Wood.

Whinchat ↕

 Red Fox (courtesy Tony Rayner)
Lesser Blackback Gull (courtesy Alan)

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