It was a trip to Lodmoor today and a very rewarding one it was, with the main highlight being a pair of Black-winged Stilts, which have been here for quite a few days now.
Birds Recorded:
Cormorant
8 Little Egret
4 Grey Heron
Mute Swan
Canada Goose
Shelduck
Mallard
Gadwall
Teal
Tufted Duck
1 Buzzard
1 Marsh Harrier
Moorhen
Coot
4 Oystercatcher
2 Black-winged Stilt
1 Lapwing
4 Black-tailed Godwit
2 Whimbrel
1 Redshank
1 Common Sandpiper
Black-headed Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Herring Gull
9 Sandwich Tern
Wood Pigeon
Green Woodpecker (Heard from Teddy Bear's Wood)
Sand Martin
House Martin
Swallow
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Song Thrush
Reed Warbler
Cetti's Warbler
2 Common Whitethroat
1 Lesser Whitethroat
6 Blackcap
10+ Chiffchaff/Willow Warbler
2 Bearded Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
2 Bullfinch
Reed Bunting
55 species recorded
1 Lapwing
4 Black-tailed Godwit
2 Whimbrel
1 Redshank
1 Common Sandpiper
Black-headed Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Herring Gull
9 Sandwich Tern
Wood Pigeon
Green Woodpecker (Heard from Teddy Bear's Wood)
Sand Martin
House Martin
Swallow
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Song Thrush
Reed Warbler
Cetti's Warbler
2 Common Whitethroat
1 Lesser Whitethroat
6 Blackcap
10+ Chiffchaff/Willow Warbler
2 Bearded Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
2 Bullfinch
Reed Bunting
55 species recorded
A Grey Heron hunting in amongst the reedbeds
A very smart looking drake Shelduck
A Marsh Harrier quartering the reedbeds
A Moorhen and its flitting tail. Which is a way of telling would-be predators that it is alert and ready to flee from an attack.
A pair of Black-winged Stilts. The female is at the front with the male at the back.
That males unmarked white head and.......
..........jet black wings, tell it apart from......
............the female and her brown wings and slightly black/grey head.
And here is compilation of clips of the pair of Black-winged Stilts.
My first Redshank of the year feeding in the shallows.
A Common Sandpiper feeding along the shoreline
In the foreground I think there are nine Sandwich Terns with six Black-headed Gulls at the back.
A male Greenfinch and....
............his mate
I could hear two Bullfinches, but the only one I got to see was this female.
Teddy Bear's Wood from Lodmoor, where a Green Woodpecker was having a good yaffle.
Ted:
Ted having a good look at the fish swimming about in the stream