Spent my usual Tuesday visit to Brandon Marsh with a couple of hours birding early on and then the rest of the morning was spent with a few of the team extracting Ragwort from the River Meadow and Farm Field. What a thankless job but necessary with the hay cut imminent! Birding highlights were
Dunlin and
Little-ringed Plover on East Marsh Pool but due to the river being slightly up the recent
Green Sandpipers had moved off Teal Pool.
A quick heads-up regarding the new screen hide: All being well we may finally have it in place by the end of next week, so fingers crossed!!
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Monday's full 'Super Moon' |
Last night (Tuesday) I spent a while on the hunt for Perseid Meteors and watched a really bright pass of the ISS. Couldn't resist taking more pictures of the 'Super Moon' currently 13% closer to earth and 30% brighter, and ended up with a commendable eleven meteors in around 40 minutes, although the light polution from the moon didn't help. The eerie calls of a
Barn Owl on several occasions and at least two
Fox's barking away to each other.
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Immature ♂Common Redstart. |
This morning a couple of hours on the patch up at Napton-on-the-Hill had my first opportunity to get a little closer to the Immature ♂
Common Redstart. I managed a couple of half decent images and while I was doing so one of Monday's females appeared.
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♂Common Redstart |
The
Spotted Flycatchers had moved a lot further down from their usual spot, the wind now backing more to the west, around a dozen or so were located. A couple of
Buzzards were making themselves busy and also recorded during my stay:
Chiffchaff,
Willow Warbler and
Raven.