Saturday 20 August 2022

Out & About

Sunny spells, 23°, breezy SW.

Both Alan and myself out today around and about the parish.

c100 Canada Geese flew from the west and continued towards the river, 4 Egyptian Geese, a Little Grebe, a flyby Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper, a Common Gull, 2 Herring Gull, 20+ Lesser Blackback Gull, 50+ Black-headed Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 3-4 Tufted Duck, Sparrowhawk, Little Owl, 100+ House Martin, 60+ Swallow, 2 Sand Martin, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Common Whitethroat, 4 Wheatear, 5 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail plus the regulars.

Mammals: Red Fox.

Dragonflies: Common Blue Damselfly, Southern Hawker & Common Darter.

Butterflies: very low numbers, Large White, Small White. Speckled Wood, Meadow Brown & Small Heath.

Paul & Alan.

Wheatear courtesy Alan
Southern Hawker

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