Weather: glorious, hot & sunny; shorts & t-shirt. From 1 to 3pm.
After the outing to 70 Acres Lake I set off for Wilstone hoping to see more hobbies in some glorious weather.
Car-park:
Chaffinch, Goldfinch.
Reservoir:
Common Tern, Coot, Mute Swan, Canada Goose, Egyptian Goose, Mallard.
Cuckoo - heard.
Whitethroat - in the hedgerow alongside the reservoir wall.
Red-Legged Partridge - from the fields behind the hedgerow.
Woodland & Hide:
Chiffchaff - heard.
Buzzard x2,
Skylark - heard.Jackdaw, Great Tit, Wren.
Robin - heard.
Red Kite - 1 over.
Great-Crested Grebe, Pochard, Gadwall, Cormorant, Tufted Duck, Greylag Goose.
Shoveler - 2 x male, 1 x female.
Hide to Dry Canal:
Stock Dove, Crow, Pheasant.
Green Woodpecker - heard.
Dunnock, Blackbird.
Yellowhammer - singing from hedge at the top of the field, next to the canal.
Blackcap - 1 male in hedge on path back down to reservoir.
From Cemetery Corner:
Reed Warbler - heard from reeds next to wood.
Swallow, Swift, Starling.
A lovely day but no hobbies, which seemed unusual because I didn't think I was too late to see them in numbers; seems I was wrong!
38 species.
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