Saturday, 28 August 2021

Bird Notes

From Ian Smith:

The Gann. c10:30-11:00
Quick visit mid morning was quiet. Just 3 Turnstone with single Dunlin on beach at high tide.  Another single Dunlin with Knot in lagoon where I could only confirm 4 Greenshank and 8 Redshank.


Plumstone Mountain

Peregrine and Kestrel circling slowly overhead whilst drifting south 15:05.
Massed along an old dried muddy track was well over 1000 nests of Ivy Bee. Colletes hedera.  Nearby in short turf were many hundreds more nests; highly concentrated.  Also very good numbers of diverse range of Hoverflies.  Personally the best site seen this year.