Saturday 27 September 2014

Mipits arriving

5 hours on the patch today; best was a big group of Meadow Pipits numbering around 200 on the stubble fields north of Meering, with a separate flock of c.130 Skylark taking up from another field; probably the biggest groups of both I've seen in Notts. Warbler numbers were up a bit on the patch since last visit, with at least 12 Chiffchaffs, 2 Blackcaps and a Whitethroat in evidence, along with a couple of Goldcrests. Three Swallows which moved through Ferry Lane Lake were my only hirundines of the day. Waders were as disappointing as ever, with one Curlew on the Silt Lagoon and one Common Sand on Ferry Lane Lake, although a group of around 150 Golden Plovers wheeled around over the Silt Lagoon and Mons for a while, but wouldn't land; that American Golden Plover will have to wait for another day.

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