Port and Wey: 29 Oct 17

Quarry Lane

Lots of confusion as to which is Bumpers Lane and Quarry Lane. Having said that Quarry Lane isn't actually marked on any map as such but is the lane that leads you to Broadcroft Quarry Butterfly Reserve and is apart from being accessible from Bumpers Lane Here is also accessible from Grove Road Here.

Bumpers Lane however leads you off towards Penn's Weare and passes Bumpers Lane Quarry Here

Bumpers Lane looking east.

The lane to the left is known as Quarry Lane (though not on any map!) and Bumpers Lane continues to the right.

If you were coming from Grove Road, this is the entrance to "Quarry Lane" which takes you to Broadcroft Quarry.

The recycling centre is down this lane

One of the old signs for Broadcroft Quarry

Now the sightings from this morning

Dave Foot tweeted he had seen 2 Yellow-browed Warblers along Quarry Lane and within 5 minutes I had joined him. As I arrived Dave told me that the two birds had had a dispute and one had flown off. The one remaining bird was working its way back and forth along the Sallows and Field Maples, with some great views at times.

Also here were 2 Firecrests, a few Chiffchaffs and Goldcrests. Overhead there were quite a few winter thrushes which also included my first Fieldfares on the island. Other migrants were Meadow Pipit, 12+ Blackbird, 8+ Redwing, 10+ Song Thrush, Chaffinch, Lesser Redpoll, Linnet, Siskin and my first Bullfinch here. The latter was a female which landed on a Sallow in "Quarry Lane" and then flew east.

When Dave left I went up to the Pool area here to see what was about there and met a chap called Nick Smith. Turns out we were both at RAF Coltishall, Norfolk together in 1995, small world. Any way as we stood there reminiscing we heard a Yellow-browed Warbler (which we presume was the second bird from "Quarry Lane") and saw a Firecrest here.

Here are few images from this morning.

This morning there were 2 Yellow-browed Warblers along Quarry Lane. When I arrived the second one had flown off but Nick smith and myself located it at the back off the Pool area Here.

Good views of the Yellow-browed Warbler

A rear shot

and another side shot.

This Chiffchaff was one of a few flitting about in the sallows.

Birds Recorded here this morning were: 1 Kestrel, Herring Gull, Wood Pigeon, 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Meadow Pipit, Pied Wagtail, Dunnock, Robin, 12+ Blackbird, 4 Fieldfare, 8+ Redwing, 10+ Song Thrush, Chiffchaff, 2 Yellow-browed Warblers, Goldcrest, 3 Firecrest, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Wren, Magpie, Rook, Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, Starling, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, Lesser Redpoll, Linnet, Siskin, Goldfinch and 1 Bullfinch.

Also about 3 Red Admirals

Wakeham

A moth night, the first for a couple of months. Just 15 moths of 6 species. Will ID them later

Moth 1: Common Marbled Carpet, Dysstroma truncata. (1)

Moth 2: The Mallow, Larentia clavaria (6)

Moth 3: Feathered Ranunculus, Polymixis lichenea (1)

Moth 4: moth sp. (1)

Moth 5: Light Brown Apple Moth, Epiphyas postvittana (1)

Moth 6: Rusty Dot Pearl, Udea ferrugalis (5)

Note: Thank you to Steve Covey for helping me ID these moths.

Moth 1: Common Marbled Carpet

Moth 2: The Mallow

Moth 3: Feathered Ranunculus

Moth 4

Moth 5: Light Brown Apple Moth

Moth 6: Rusty Dot Pearl

Ferrybridge

Another trip to the boatyard this evening and a bit more painting to Tiki, and then a walk across the main road to view the Brent Geese and waders coming in as the tide dropped. There were around 150 Brent Geese along the shore-line, but after a short spell here flew off towards Abbotsbury. Also here 1 Oystercatcher, 30+ Dunlin and around 15 Ringed Plovers with a couple of juveniles in tow.