Wednesday 22 May 2013

Lutley Wedge 22/05/13 Overcast, sunny spells.

Wassell Grove Pools :-
1 ♂ Garden Warbler
2 ♂ Willow Warbler
3 Whitethroat
Blackcap
Chiffchaff

Sunday 12 May 2013

Lutley Wedge 08/05/13-12/05/13

(All sightings SLC...)
8/5/13
2 Swallow ➝N
3 Swift

11/5/13
1 Garden Warbler (Wassell Grove Pools)
2 Willow Warbler
4+ Chiffchaff
4+ Blackcap
5 Whitethroat
1 Swift
4 House Martin

12/5/13
10+ Swift
6+ Whitethroat

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Lutley Wedge 07/05/13

(All Sightings SLC...)
1♀ Wheatear
10+ Common Whitethroat
4+ Blackcap
♀ Wheatear 7/5/13

Sunday 5 May 2013

Lutley Wedge 05/05/13

(All sightings SLC...)
2 Wheatear (1♂1♀)
17 Common Whitethroat
1 Willow Warbler
7 Blackcap
5 House Martin
Wheatears 5/5/13

Thursday 2 May 2013

Lutley Wedge 02/5/13 (3°c/16°c) Sunny, clear skies. Variable F1/2

"Sterna!" 
2 COMMON TERN (circled over Wassell Grove Pools at 09.45am for 5 minutes before spiralling up very high and lost to view)
1♂ Whinchat 
1♀ Wheatear
1 Lesser Whitethroat
14 Common Whitethroat
2 Willow Warbler
3+ Blackcap
2+ Chiffchaff
5 Swift
7 Swallow
1 Greylag Goose ➝E
Common Tern 2/5/13 (Only the 3rd record at Lutley Wedge)

Whinchat 2/5/13

♀ Wheatear 2/5/13

Wednesday 1 May 2013

Lutley Wedge 01/05/13 Sunny, clear skies. Calm-(S/SE) F1/2

1 flava Wagtail ➝SE
3 Wheatear (2♂1♀)
12 Common Whitethroat
9+ Blackcap
2 Willow Warbler
6+ Chiffchaff
11 Swallow
2 House Martin
1 Siskin 
1+ Redpoll sp
(2nd cal yr) ♂ Wheatear 
(Showing signs of pre-breeding moult, with a single fresh moulted inner greater covert and median covert visible)

Pale morph Common Buzzard 1/5/13
(this strikingly pale Buzzard certainly quickened the pulse as it circled in high overhead, pale variants occur more commonly in Northern European populations and wherever this bird is from it's certainly not one of the patch locals!)