Tuesday 23 August 2011

August 22nd

With no patch visit at the weekend to speak of, I was interested to see if much was happening, Pete and I did the moth recording this morning and found a new moth for the site Tree Lichen Beauty a really nice little moth, we also had Purple Bar, 2 White Points and 2 Iron Prominents and an assortment of commoner moths, 219 moths of 45 species.

Tree Lichen Beauty (poor pic, sorry)
I was joined for the birding by Pete as well, there were again good numbers of SPOTTED FLYCATCHERS (10+), a GARDEN WARBLER was with 3 BLACKCAP and BULLFINCH, NUTHATCH, 2 GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKERS and a WILLOW WARBLER were all in the car park.

Nuthatch


Whitethroat

Spotted Flycatcher
 A KINGFISHER disappeared from view as it followed the path of the moat. The fields were quietish to start with but as we went on there good numbers of buntings again, a CORMORANT flew over as did several HERRING GULLS and 1 LESSER BLACK BACKED GULL. There was also a nice mixed flock of birds in the tree lined bridleway, LONG TAILED TITS, CHIFFCHAFF, WILLOW WARBLER another SPOTTED FLYCATCHER and several WHITETHROATS. A quick scan of the new hedge produced the now longish staying, WHINCHAT x 2 and STONECHAT, I was slightly surprised, as the field they were favouring has now been harvested, lastly a flock of about 15 HOUSE MARTINS had started to get together around the offices. 43 species this morning in about an hour and a half. Thanks to some good friends the photos are back in business!!

Whinchat

Stonechat

Chiffchaff

Long Tailed Tit

5 comments:

Warren Baker said...

well those photo's certainly made up for the lack of 'em in previous postings Alan, very nice :-)

Phil said...

43 species in an hour and a half Alan, sounds really good to me. Nice pictures too, I like the fluffed up Chiffy.

Bob Bushell said...

The Whitethroat is the best, mind you, they all are very good.

Mike H said...

Nice photos Alan good to have them back.Nice shot of the Nuthatch, one that I struggle to get on camera.

Alan Pavey said...

Hi Warren, Thanks, it is nice to be to brighten my rambling on, with a few pics :-)

Hi Phil, Thanks, that was a good number for me in that time. I'm pleased to get pics back on.

Hi Bob, Thanks, I was lucky with the Whitethroat posing for a short time :-)

Hi Mike, Thanks, Nuthatches are fairly easy to find here and with a few young about gives a bit of a chance of a pic here and there :-)