Garganey 1 drake
Arctic Tern 1
Common Tern 10
Lesser Whitethroat 1 singing
Turnstone 3
Swift 1000+
Swallow 100's
House Martin 100's
Sand Martin a few
Reed Warbler 5 singing
Year 192 (Black Tern)
The weather might have been awful this morning, but what it did do was bring in a lot of birds! These were by far the largest numbers of Swifts and hirundines I have seen this year, and there were lots of terns present, the numbers given being the minimum because counting was quite difficult due to the large numbers of birds involved. I was there of course to see the Black Terns which had been found this morning, and I wasn't disappointed, with good but fairly distant views of both birds from Horrock's hide.
Then I went to Ramsdales hide where there was a drake Garganey. It had been asleep for most of the day, but when I got there it had just started feeding and provided excellent views.
Garganey
The view from Ramsdales and Horrock's hides. You can see how much rain was put down this morning by comparing the photo taken from Horrock's today with that I took from the same hide just two days ago!
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