Friday 21 August 2015

A brief flurry of warblers, then bit and pieces


21st August 15          morning             mid section

Thick low cloud, 17-19°c, 1018mb, S 9 mph


A quiet start, the Paddocks were dead, a few more pied wags (7) than recently on Compton playing field.  Then I bumped into Ian ( haven't seen him for a while ) and we had 30 minutes of fairly intense warbler activity ( nothing funny about that ) whitethroats,chiffchaffs and a willow popping up all over the place, almost certainly the same few birds doing what they've been doing all week, but no blackcaps today which seem to have gone through. A pair of bullfinch and a greenfinch were at the top of Barleyfield and the moorhen with one small chick was still on the Prefab spill weir. Calling goldcrest and long-tailed tit were also noted.


Mallard few S&W Canal
Buzzard calls Valley
Moorhen 1 brood Prefab Weir
Black Headed Gull 18 Compton Field
Lesser Black Backed Gull odds over mid section
Pied Wagtail 7 Compton Field
Wren 1 singing meccano Grds
Whitethroat 3 Hanging Grds
Chiffchaff 3 Barleyfield
Willow Warbler 1 Hanging Grds X
Goldcrest calls Smestow Br
Long Tailed Tit calls The Paddock
Greenfinch 1 Central Scrub
Bullfinch pair Top Roses
Meadow Brown few Barleyfield

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