The breeze is beginning to ramp up as the wild weather predicted at the weekend begins to take effect. As a result, it was a bit of a quieter day on the land with a reduction of Goldcrests, Robins and Chiffchaffs with 42, 35 and 11 respectively. The Withies held the quality though with a perhaps belated first for the year in Yellow-browed Warbler, with a brief individual uttering the distinctive contact-calls before vanishing in Plas Withy as quickly as it appeared. With the nets set-up, it was then surprising that a Siberian Lesser Whitethroat was trapped along with a couple of Willow Warblers. Hopefully some DNA analysis confirms the race in the near future. Elsewhere, a tardy Yellow Wagtail flew over, a Firecrest was at Nant, a Water Rail remained at Nant and a Grey Wagtail was over Ty Pellaf, even briefly landing in the farmyard. A Coal Tit also continued to do the rounds across the island and two Blue Tits remained. On the Narrows, there were 19 White Wagtails and a two Wheatears.
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Siberian Lesser Whitethroat (C) Steve Stansfield |
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Siberian Lesser Whitethroat (C) Steve Stansfield |
The recent increase in wildfowl continued with a pair of Teals in the Wetlands whilst waders included 18 Curlews, two Whimbrels, two Snipes and (bizarrely) our first Turnstone sighting for a few days, where are they? A pair of Peregrines were noisily squawking over the Mountain, the male even doing a spectacular flypast for our last guided walk of the season!
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We've recently passed the milestone of 50 Seal pups for the season with quite the variation in development and sizes of pups across the island (C) Steve Stansfield |
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