It was an early walk this morning, to avoid a weather front due around midday. And when it did arrive at 11:50am it was pretty heavy and lasted for the remainder of the day.
Quite a few Spring Migrants were about and apart from a single male Common Whitethroat in Wakeham Meadow, the remaining migrants I came across were all in the butterfly reserve, including a Wood Warbler.
They were:
1 Common Redstart
1 Wheatear
4 Common Whitethroat
1 Lesser Whitethroat
2 Blackcap
1 Wood Warbler
7 Chiffchaff/Willow Warbler
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Stock Dove
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Robin
1 Common Redstart
1 Wheatear
Blackbird
2 Song Thrush
5 Common Whitethroat
1 Lesser Whitethroat
2 Blackcap
7 Chiffchaff/Willow Warbler
Birds Recorded:
Herring Gull
Stock Dove
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Robin
1 Common Redstart
1 Wheatear
Blackbird
2 Song Thrush
5 Common Whitethroat
1 Lesser Whitethroat
2 Blackcap
1 Wood Warbler
7 Chiffchaff/Willow Warbler
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Bees Recorded:
3 Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Ted:
7 Chiffchaff/Willow Warbler
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Its not often you can get this close to a Stock Dove
Or indeed a Wheatear, which....
.....took off and landed close to me.
A female Common Whitethroat
My first Lesser Whitethroat this Spring.
A male Blackcap, with a black cap and......
........a female Blackcap with a brown cap.
3 Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Ted:
Lots of Ted's. One of my better efforts.