First thing two Cormorants flew over the village westward.
There was about 30 Swallows around the village, the young Swallows from the nest spent a lot of time in the shed again.
I popped in to Froslesworth manor lake during the morning. Plenty of Swallows and House Martins there around the horse paddocks and c50 Starlings feeding. The Great Crested Grebe pair and juvenile were still present, then a Hobby flew by towards Fosse Meadows. Four plus Chiffchaffs were in the thick hedge and three Goldfinch feeding on the rough ground. Otherwise it was fairly quite there today.
I spent the afternoon in the Shawell area, on arriving at the lagoons Carl told me there was very few gulls present, so we headed off to the landfill site. Here too, there was very few gulls, on the small pool was a few Mallard and Teal, then a call was heard overhead and a Ringed Plover circled for a while before heading off NW.
After looking at another pool, which had a few more Teal, we went back to the main Lagoons. Some gulls had returned and quickly some colour rings were read, one being a Danish ring. On the sandy shore about 75 Lapwings were resting. After a while the Lapwings and Gulls all flew up as if a predator was about, but nothing could be seen. Then Carl spotted four waders flying in, these touched down very briefly, a Ruff, A Ringed Plover a Dunlin and another small wader, then they were off again. The Lapwings and Gulls were still flying about disturbed, fortunately the waders came back and touched down again, briefly, but long enough to see the smallest wader was a adult Little Stint in winter plumage They flew off together northward, an odd group of waders we thought to be travelling together, but then these are often seen together at principle wader locations. For this site these are really good records.
On the south lagoon were the flock of Canada Geese and three Little Grebes, a few House Martins were feeding low over the reeds and hedgerow.
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