Port and Wey: 2 Dec 23

Lodmoor RSPB Reserve

It was a third trip to Lodmoor this week, and this time a lot earlier than the previous two visits, where the light was pretty poor. With the reserve covered in ice, the 300+ Golden Plover elsewhere leaving a lone individual to hold the fort on the west scrape.

Mammals Recorded:
8 Brown Rat

There were a lot of Brown Rats running about on the path and at very close quarters. Poor Ted didn't know which way to turn. Thank goodness we kept him on his lead.

Birds Recorded:
1 Cormorant
2 Little Egret
3 Grey Heron
2 Mute Swan
Canada Goose
Shelduck
Mallard
Wigeon
Teal
Shoveler
Tufted Duck
Water Rail (two heard)
Moorhen
1 Golden Plover
40+ Lapwing
4 Dunlin
20+ Snipe
2 Black-tailed Godwit
4 Turnstone
Black-headed Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Herring Gull
Common Gull
Wood Pigeon
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch

Grey Heron #1 coming into land

Grey Heron #2 with an itch

Grey Heron #3 soaking up the Winter sun.

On the right a Mute Swan, to its left are Teal and Shoveler, and then more Teal to the far left. On the grass bank at the back are Wigeon.

Teal in flight

In the water a Snipe. Front row from left to right a Lapwing, Starling, another Lapwing and a lone Golden Plover. And in the back row are two more Lapwing.

A Lapwing coming into land

Two Dunlin

Eleven Snipe

Another Snipe and........

.............one more.

To the left of the Lapwing a Black-tailed Godwit comes into land.

And to the left of these two Lapwings is Turnstone

Front row and top right are all adult winter Black-headed Gulls. Top left is a Mediterranean Gull with.....

.............a leg ring "39AN"

Left to right an adult Herring Gull, Lapwing, another Lapwing, a first winter Herring Gull hidden by an adult winter Mediterranean Gull in flight.