Tuesday 17 September 2024

Spot Fly


 Spotted Flycatcher. I was beginning to think I wasn't going to get one on Orcombe this autumn. It has been really poor with no Sedge Warbler, no Grasshopper Warbler and no Redstart yet. Other 'common' migrants have been in very short supply so I was more pleased than I normally would have been with this Willow Warbler...


Orcombe Point from 0710 'til 0905 - 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Wheatear, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Stonechats, 100+ Meadow Pipits, 4 'alba' Wagtails, 1 Coal Tit, 16+ Chiffchaffs, up to 5 Grey Wagtails, 14+ House Martins, 35+ Swallows, 4 Blackcaps and a river-bound flock of 22 Cormorants.
Mudbank - 43 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 1 Pale-bellied Brent Goose (this morning, rising to 55 Brents late this afternoon but the light was too harsh to tell whether the 11 extras were pale or dark), 104 Pintail, c370 Wigeon, 6 Teal, 2 Tufted Ducks, 19 Black-tailed Godwits, 8 Bar-tailed Godwits, 143 Shelducks, 11+ Ringed Plovers, 23+ Dunlin, 1 Sanderling, 1 Stock Dove, 2 Sandwich Terns, 11 Redshank, 1 Greenshank, 29+ Little Egrets, 1 Whimbrel and 1 Kingfisher. The Wigeon x Pintail hybrid has returned for another year. Yippeee!
Additionally - a Yellow Wagtail over the house late morning and a Kestrel over the cricket pitch.


A flock of 22 Cormorants past Orcombe Point towards the river.


Pintail - Mudbank. A total of 104 counted today.


Wigeon - Mudbank. Today's count was c370 birds. Plenty more to come yet...


Peregrines - Orcombe Point. Obvious size difference between male (left) and female.

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