Sunday, 1 June 2025

1st June - mostly cloudy, blustery SW, 18C

 Willey; 

Six red Kites and a Buzzard hunting over grass field being rowed-up and baled for silage.

Lilbourne Meadows; morning

Six Little Egrets and 2 Grey Herons.

A drake Shoveler chased off another that came in. Unusually, a pair of Tufted Duck. A Redshank.

A group of 10 Blackbirds, together, feeding on the paddock, eight were juveniles - presumably two broods.  

Shawell Sandpit/Landfill; morning.

A Hobby dashed over chased by a Jackdaw.

The Egyptian Goose family still.  Three lapwings around the pool edges. A single Shelduck

Canada Goose broods were a 2 and a 3 - small broods!

10 Red Kites and c20 Ravens among the swarm of carrion Crows and Jackdaws at the landfill.

Among the Tufted was a single drake Pochard and four Gadwall.

Eyebrook reservoir; afternoon.

Pretty quiet with no passage waders seen, only 17 Lapwings.  Plenty Common Tern activity on the rafts and quite a few Black-headed Gulls around the inlet.

A good number of Swifts, House martins feeding and a few Swallows.

14+ Little Egrets and three Great White Egrets.

Several Reed Buntings singling and a Yellowhammer.

Medbourne

Grey Wagtails at the brook.






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