Monday, 10 April 2023

A swirling mass of sand martins at Pennington Flash


After a fairly quiet walk around the flash this morning I called in again at Green Lane this afternoon just in time for a dramatic deluge of rain which lasted about 30 minutes. There were just immense numbers of sand martins all over the flash with the best estimate 2200 birds, a really impressive sight. With them I managed to pick out a single house martin, my first of the year and two swallows. 

After the rain cleared I scoped the spit and managed to pick out a singles of dunlin and redshank as well as two little ringed plovers, whilst a little egret was at the western end.

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