With strong easterlies blowing there was some light visible migration going on overhead at Staines Moor this morning. 1 Common Swift heading N was my first of the year, and 3-4 Common Buzzard NE, 1 Peregrine N, 3 Common Tern E and 20+ Barn Swallows N were also seen moving through. A female Northern Wheatear in the north-west corner was the only passage migrant on the deck, but summer visitors on territory were everywhere with 3 Cuckoo (1 heard), 2 Garden Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 18 Common Whitethroat, 7 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler (heard), 10 Blackcap, and 7 Chiffchaff all noted.
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| Peregrine |
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| Northern Wheatear |
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| Lesser Whitethroat |
Other notables seen were 3 Egyptian Geese (4th photo), 3+ Shelduck, 4 Gadwall and 15 Lapwing (a high site count nowadays).
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| 1 of the 3 Egyptian Geese present today |
I really miss the muddy pools that existed on Stanwell Moor a few years ago. Back then, passage waders such as Bar-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover and Green Sandpiper were regular, but nowadays these pools are almost dried up and overrun with reeds and sallows, and so there's absolutely no chance of any of these
beauties dropping in!
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