Having made a couple of runs to the local recycling centre this morning, I decided that I would pay Fancy's Farm a visit, as it was literally just around the corner and a pretty good location for birds migrating south.
Having parked up, it was a good ten minutes or so before anything of note appeared as a lone Yellow Wagtail passed overhead.
It was then another 10 minutes before birds started to show up on the boulders and bushes. First bird to appear was a juvenile Wheatear, followed by a second bird.
Next was a Whinchat, then a Common Whitethroat, followed by two more Whinchats.
As I headed back towards the farm fence I came across two Stonechats, another Whinchat and two more Common Whitethroats.
Birds Recorded:
1 Peregrine Falcon
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
1 Yellow Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
2 Stonechat
4 Whinchat
2 Wheatear
Blackbird
4 Common Whitethroat
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
4 Raven
Starling
House Sparrow
Linnet
Goldfinch
A female Stonechat with a slightly darker orange breast than "normal".
Below are a few images and videos of the Whinchats I came across just south of Fancy's Farm here.
This is a..........
.............juvenile Wheatear.
These are..........
...........Common Whitethroats
Butterflies Recorded:
1 Red Admiral
1 Red Admiral
3 Speckled Wood
These..............
................are.............
................all Speckled Woods.
Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum)
bee sp.
A Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum)
And my mystery bee today!!
1 Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Ships Today:
This is the Cypriot Container Ship "Samskip Endeavour" on its way from Waterford to Rotterdam. More on this vessel here.