This weekend was our village show, so yesterday was mostly spent 'buffing my veg' and baking scones and cakes. I was like a cross between Alan Titchmarsh and Paul Hollywood!
I snook out yesterday afternoon, after the veg and baking was in the hands of the judges. The predicted 'fall' conditions hadn't happened and the bushes were quiet. I checked the big pools for waders, with East Chevington hosting white rumped, pec and curlew sands, there had to be a good wader at Druridge. There wasn't.
This curlew was very obliging.
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First a bath |
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Then a stretch |
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Then a yawn |
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Then a wander |
There was a few migrant passerines in the bushes, willow warbler, whitethroat, sedge warbler and blackcap.
Today was show dominated, so I didn't make it to Druridge until after 3pm.
Dave Elliott had tipped me off about
whinchats and a
cuckoo at Druridge. I saw both the whinchats which were associating with a family of
stonechats but not nearly as obliging. Two off the young stonechats looked like they weren't long out of the nest - third broods which I have missed?
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record shot of whinchat |
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Adult male stonechat |
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juvenile stonechat - not long out of the nest |
The cuckoo flew from the dunes into the bushes. It is very late for a cuckoo, presumably a late, locally bred individual?
144 Whinchat
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