Saturday 19th April
A very grim morning today, I left home at 6am in heavy rain. I parked by the water works entrance off of the A228. As i parked up 2 Nightingale were singing close together either side of the road by the Water Works entrance. These were the first of 8 Nightingale heard this morning.
NIGHTINGALE SINGING IN THE RAIN!
I added two new migrants for the year to add to yesterday's Swift. 2 Sedge Warbler (getting quite a scarce bird here now) were seen and heard from the path that runs through the sunken marsh at the top of Abbey Mead, also 2 of 6 Reed Warbler heard today were there. 16 Sand Martin, 9 Willow Warbler, only 4 Chiffchaff, 4 Whitethroat and 11 Blackcap were also noted.
I addition to the birds 1 Water Vole and 3 Newt Efts under a plank of wood (either Palmate or Smooth - pretty impossible to tell at this stage)
Still no Cuckoo for me this year (although one was heard last week here)
posted by Steve @ 12:00 pm
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3 Comments:
Well done on getting out today Steve! It was grim this am. Now all the migrants are filling up the prime breeding areas, maybe us in the sub - prime market might get the overflow !
Great Nightingale photo, nice one!
Great walk this morning. Pleasure to meet you. I managed to see the Little Gull on Brooklands - my closest view of one ever!
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