Saturday 15 April 2023

Updated Hollesley

March 19th

Second trip of the day, Spoonbill a Red Headed Goosander and 2 Adult Med Gulls and 1 1st Winter on site. 




 March 21st 

Migrants slowly coming through with 3 White wagtails, still 45 Whitefronts, the Great white egret is still here as is the hybrid Fudge duck. The Handful of Tufted ducks are still here and showing well from the screen.




March 25th

Highlights, 150 white-fronted geese. 1 1st winter bean goose. 11 barnacles. 1 Pinkfoot. Great White Egret. 1 white wag. Fudge x pochard. 5 pochard 16 tufted.



April 1st 

Willow warbler singing inside the prison grounds and a Yellow Wagtail over were firsts for the year. A Whitefront still knocking around as is the Great white egret. Red Kite over my Hollesley garden. and a female Brambling visited my feeders. 

April 2nd

A cracking Drake Goosander was in the ditch north of sluice. 2 Spoonbill visited the flash, the Great White Egret still. Blackcap now in and singing. 15 Whitefronts again.



April 5th

More Migrants slowly turning up a Drake Garganey on main scrape was a great find, also 2 Great Crested Grebe was unusual, normally only seen on a seawatch. 2 Swallow and a Sedge Warbler was great. The pink-footed goose and C50 white fronts still. A nice 1st winter Caspian gull.
The sunny day attracted some Butterflies with Comma and Peacock in the garden also an Emperor Moth to Lure.


April 9th
Not great quality but 92 species seen Hollesley to Boyton, at Boyton a Firecrest by farm again. Yellow and white wagtails, swallow and spoonbill over. Red kite. Hollesley Great White Egret, now a few sedge warblers in and the regular 2 Swallow and a Sand Martin.

Some Firebugs on the footpath outside home were unusual.



April 10th
Rain brought down 25 Swallows

April 15th
A Common Crane was tracked coming down the coast and i managed to get it from Hollesley before it turned back North.  Terrible record shots. A Greenshank was new in.



Then headed for Hollesley upper common to get my fix of Nightingale, Woodlarks and Dartfords. A Red Kite was a nice surprise. 

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