Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Dale-Marloes

Gann: 3 Little grebe, 4 Barwits, 2 blackwits. 3 Little egrets. Willow warblers calling here and on track up to airfield. Kete-St Ann's: Some really promising-looking fields, the one on the corner at Kete looks like a bowling green but nothing there yet. Female Kestrel, stonechats and a few wheatears along coast path (and later on road). Large flock of linnets in stubble field St Anns head (c100 with a few Goldfinch). c50 Pied wagtails with the cattle by lighthouse, no Yellows. Flock of 20 goldfinch and linnets eating mallow seeds in the deserted cottage gardens. Airfield: 3 chough, 7 wheatear, female sparrowhawk and a curlew. Lots of crane fly coming off with big flock of jackdaws and rooks. Oriole Hide: 1 dunlin!