Monday 22 April 2019

Farmoor 22 April morning


Glorious sunny visit to Farmoor this morning, with some reasonable birds around as well. On arrival there were 2 Yellow Wags on the grassy bank on the E side of F1. Although they were almost immediately flushed by a fisherman, I noticed there was one still there on my return, this time being harried by a couple of photographers.

Out along the causeway, Dave Lowe kindly put me onto some adult Little Gulls on F1 - but too distant for photos. On F2, there were c. 12 Common Terns but initially no sign of any Arctics or Black Terns.

Over the causeway and down to the meadows and river beyond, there was a vocal Cuckoo flying around from time to time.

Cuckoo

Further on at the pool with the footbridge at Buckthorn Meadow there was a Sedge Warbler that was coming up into the tops of the reeds from time to time.

Sedge Warbler
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Returning to the causeway, Geoff Wyatt helpfully showed me an Arctic Tern and a Black Tern in the middle of F2 that seemed to be associating with each other.

So a better than average visit!

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