Yellow Wagtail 1 male
Common Sandpiper 8+ present all day
Sedge Warbler 2 singing
Whitethroat 2 singing
Blackcap 4 singing males
Lesser Redpoll 4
Gadwall 2 (male & female)
Willow Tit 1
Swallow 50
Sand Martin 50
House Martin 20
It was clearly a good day for Common Sandpiper migration today, with at least another 2 in Taylor Park, and it was the most impressive day yet this year for hirundines. The Yellow Wagtail was a stunning male, on the "delta" mud where the stream enters the mere. It was my 95th species this year at Eccleston Mere.
Common Sandpiper and Yellow Wagtail. Thanks to Damian Pendlebury for allowing me to use these excellent photos!
Swallows.
I've seen Common Scoter at the mere eat Swan mussels, in fact they swallow them whole and crush them in their gizzards, but I'm not sure how this Coot was going to eat this mussel.
Thursday 25 April 2013
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